Word: patheticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle for Vientiane last December. Fortnight ago he wangled his way into the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres for a startling report on the Communist arms buildup there (TIME, March 10). Karnow himself talked to a vast collection of sources: princes, diplomats, generals, former Viet Minh officers and Pathet Lao guerrillas...
...channel all U.S. aid to Laos through an international body acceptable to both sides. This would include a willingness to provide a proportionate share of aid to Communist-dominated Pathet Lao areas, provided that they had accepted peaceable reintegration with a nationally elected government...
Thompson asked whether, in return, the Russians were willing to abandon their military backing of the Pathet Lao rebels and concur in Laotian neutrality. Furthermore, Thompson wanted to find out whether Khrushchev was prepared to underwrite Red Chinese concurrence in such a decision...
...Laos and other countries in the area. To combat it, the U.S. would take any measures necessary. If Khrushchev, instead of damping down the dangerous fire in Laos, chose to fan the flames, the U.S. reaction would be immediate. For every two guns the Communists sent to the Pathet Lao. the U.S. was prepared by way of "escalation"' to ship three to the pro-Western army of Premier Boun Oum and his strongman, General Phoumi Nosavan...
...Communists were only slightly better served. On the commanding Plaine des Jarres, cut off from the Royal Army by deep ravines, the Pathet Lao fought without pay and kept their new Russian weapons clean. But the Pathet Lao have not yet dared risk a major battle. During three months of slow retreat, they have managed to kill just 50 of the enemy, almost all by means of land mines or long-distance artillery barrage. What could serious cold-warriors on either side do with soldiers who set up tiny clay images of Buddha to shoot at, deliberately missed, and then...