Word: patheticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toughest and most dedicated Communists are those trained in North Viet Nam. Some were ordered into neighboring Laos, to fight with the Pathet Lao against the Royal government (see following story). Others, like captured Lieut. Duong, came into South Viet Nam by sea in junks posing as fishermen but carrying arms and medical supplies to Viet Cong bands. Many have died rather than surrender, but brief glances into their lives remain in the scribbled pages of their diaries and journals. These diaries are not only added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them...
...position of trying to back both a neutralist course for Laos and General Phoumi, who in turn would undoubtedly get a more respectful hearing for his uncompromising stand if in a year of fighting, his U.S.-equipped army had not been badly whipped by the much smaller Russian-equipped Pathet Lao. A U.S. official gave his version of General Walter Bedell Smith's diplomatic axiom: "You don't win at the conference table what you've lost on the battlefield...
...fobbed off with a minor cabinet post-or with none at all. His Royal Laotian Army is better trained and equipped than it was at the time of the cease-fire last May. But the most optimistic Western observers doubt whether it is yet a match for the Communist Pathet Lao, which has been continuously supplied by Soviet airlift. Commented a U.S. expert: "The problem is still one of leadership, and without that Laotians have no will to fight...
...Boun Oum's man had held out for the royal capital of Luangprabang, but now agreed that the meeting should take place at the village of Hin Heup on the Lik River, where one bank is held by the Royal Laotian Army and the other by the Communist Pathet...
...Commander in Chief Pacific, conceded that there was "danger" that the civil war might again break out in a matter of weeks. As the rainy season drew to a close, more and more Soviet transport planes landed at Xieng Khoung with supplies and equipment for the 20,000 Pathet Lao troops and the 3,000 army rebels of Captain Kong Le. Battle-tested cadres from Communist North Viet Nam are drilling the Pathet Lao, driving their truck convoys, stringing communication lines, and flying their helicopters...