Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snakes & Storks. In a housewifely break with royal precedent, Alex gave Harrods' department store a list of the wedding presents she wanted; they included an ironing board, a dozen plain Whitefriar glasses ($1.16 each) and a roulette wheel. When one town council asked if she had any other notions, the no-nonsense princess replied: "Give us the money, and let us buy something we really want." (They got a check for $170.) Other gifts poured in from governments and citizens all over the world...
...received coolly; only a junior protocol officer was at the airport to meet him. When he got to the Kremlin, he found Khrushchev more than happy to give vague endorsement of the Geneva accords, but less than willing to take any concrete action to stop the fighting in the Plain of Jars...
...meeting with top U.S. aides in Bangkok, Admiral Harry D. Felt, commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific, discussed contingency plans in the event that the Pathet Lao moves off the Plain of Jars into the Mekong River valley. The U.S. is not committed to put troops into Laos, and the military is not enthusiastic about the prospect of fighting there, for the lack of airfields, railroads and good roads would make it tough to sustain operations. But if the Pathet Lao showed an inclination to sweep all the way south, the U.S. forces in Thailand might well have...
...flying visit to the Plain of Jars, Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma managed to arrange a shaky cease-fire between the Pathet Lao and Kong Le's neutralists. Though sporadic artillery duels still pockmarked the plain, there were no outright Red attacks, and the neutralists lost no new territory. But hostilities threatened to erupt from another quarter. Around the perimeter of the plain, right-wing General Phoumi Nosavan was reinforcing his positions, and in the foothills behind the Pathet Lao lines, tough, well-armed Meo tribesmen, who have no love for the Reds, posed a dangerous threat to Communist supply...
Fait Accompli. For the moment, the Reds appeared content to consolidate their new territorial gains on the Plain of Jars and to let the crisis cool of its own accord. If they moved off the plain, they would surely march right into a civil war with Phoumi's rightist forces, thus inviting U.S. intervention, which they wished to avoid at all costs. Despite protests by both Souvanna and the U.S., the Pathet Lao's territorial grab was a fait accompli. There were those in the U.S. who thought the only long-range answer to the Laos problem...