Word: premonsoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia was in no hurry to come to terms. Premonsoon rains had turned Laos' few roads to quagmires, bogging down the halfhearted Royal Army drive against rebel strongholds. Cambodia, under heavy pressure from Red China, declined to participate in the King's plan, and called again for a grandiose, 14-nation conference on little Laos. Such a round table would only prolong the sputtering civil war indefinitely-while giving the Red Chinese a seat and a propaganda forum...
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