Word: patheticness
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Hanoi's Vietnam News Agency said Saturday that 20 South Vietnamese tanks or armored cars were destroyed, and two captured in fighting Thursday. The Pathet Lao said that over 60 allied soldiers had been killed or wounded in the fighting...
...Harvard University Press has published a study funded by the Rand Corporation which gives a detailed description of the origins, evolution, and present leadership of the Pathet...
...become a forceful advocate of bombing population centers in Pathet Lao territory. Unlike Vietnam, where its main function was intelligence-gathering, the CIA has been intimately involved in operations here. It directs the 30,000-man Armee Clandestine, which does the bulk of the fighting. And with its own team of photo interpreters, control of reconnaissance aircraft, and teams of local ground observers, the CIA has played a key role in targeting sessions as well. As the Armee Clandestine began suffering reverses on the ground, the CIA held that heavy bombing of the Pathet Lao civilian infrastructure was necessary...
...vulnerability to enemy fighter planes and antiaircraft fire. In Indochina, where the U.S. was never challenged in the sky, artillery is the chief problem. All told, 4,219 machines have been lost during the war, at least 1,928 of them in combat. Last week the Communist Pathet Lao's representative in Vientiane, Colonel Soth Pethrassy, said that the mountainous terrain in the Laos operation made it especially easy to shoot at U.S. helicopters. "We place three men on each hill, and when the helicopters come in low we can shoot at them in an almost horizontal line...
...returning to Vientiane after a week in the royal capital of Luang Prabang, even four years ago constantly threatened by Pathet Lao guerrillas. If I am anxious to get back to Vientiane, where the main amusement is Walt Disney movies dubbed in Thai, rest assured that Luang Prabang must have been dead. It is the rainy season. The only way to get to Vientiane, since there are no passable roads, is to fly-in a DC-3. The only way to get to the airport is to cross the river-on a ferry, since there are no bridges in Laos...