Word: patheticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different story with the estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese combat troops and technicians who have been fighting with the Communist Pathet Lao. At the exit point set up at Nhommarath, in central Laos, the Pathet Lao has cooped up the I.C.C. inspectors in a fenced-in compound to keep them from checking on the withdrawal. With a straight face, the Pathet Lao commander said to the I.C.C.: "We've put up the fence to prevent wild buffalo from attacking...
...Laos last week everything was quiet except the guns. In accordance with the 14-nation Geneva agreement last July, the Communist Pathet Lao has released five U.S. and one Filipino prisoner, and anti-Communist Vice Premier Phoumi Nosa-van last week handed over six North Vietnamese prisoners to the Social Welfare Minister. One of the six turned out to be Chinese-born, and two of them said they did not want to go home. The Cabinet also designated three exit points for foreign troops. Some 800 U.S. military advisers with the Royal Laotian Army will leave via Vientiane; North Vietnamese...
After 14 nations signed the Geneva accord establishing Laotian neutrality last month. Red Prince Souphanouvong promised to release the U.S. prisoners held by his Communist Pathet Lao. Last week five gaunt and bearded men stumbled off a twin-engined Soviet plane at Vientiane's Wattay airport. They had been imprisoned for 15 months or more - and looked...
...other U.S. servicemen in a mountainous eastern province of Laos. Unable to walk without assistance, and barely able to talk, Bailey said that he had been locked alone in a "blackcell" for the past eleven months, was subjected to "continuous questioning." The only other U.S. serviceman released by the Pathet Lao was Sergeant Orville Ballenger, 28, a member of a U.S. Army team assigned to the Royal Laotian Army, who was captured with three other soldiers in April 1961 and had been kept in solitary imprisonment ever since. Luckiest of the prisoners, by their own accounts, were Edward N. Shore...
...western Royal Laotian army has tended to stay aloof, while the communist Pathet Lao has moved into the villages and lived among the people. The Pathet Lao did not have to invade Laos, they used a process of "complete encirclement through osmosis...