Word: rattinkoun
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...black berets marched through the puddled streets of Vientiane in the first "antivice" drive in Laotian history. They carried "good'' banners, hailing the three Rs of "Revolution, Roads and Rice,'' and "bad'' banners condemning equally Communism, opium, prostitution, gambling and liquor. General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, the Laotian chief of staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making physical war on the opium growers." Instead, the government...
While its Communist neighbors, Red China and North Viet Nam, hurled threats by radio, tiny Laos last week tried desperately to set its house in order. Tough, grizzled General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, veteran of jungle battles against the French, Chinese, North Viet Nam Reds, and the home-grown Communists of the Pathet Lao, was ordered to solve by force a problem that had not yielded to nearly two years of diplomacy. His task: to integrate into the 25,000 man Royal Laotian army two Communist battalions...
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