Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of Communism's smile was visible last week in Laos; the little landlocked Asian kingdom (pop. 2,000,000) which is menaced by two Red neighbors...
After a two-week lull, the Communists were on the offensive again. Only 3,500 strong, but well-equipped and highly trained, the Reds seemed well on the way to taking over Laos' important northern provinces. Phongsaly, which borders directly on both China and North Viet Nam, was heavily penetrated. Samneua was now almost entirely surrounded by a 20-mile-wide ring of Communists, and at least a third of the province was under Red control...
...chat with India's Nehru, the first meeting of the two heads of state. One item that may well be discussed: General Ayub's suggestion last spring that Pakistan and India get together for the joint defense of the Indian subcontinent, an idea that Nehru-confronted with Red China's challenge on his northern borders -apparently no longer considers so outlandish as he once...
Hamstrung by the arrest of their chiefs and also by the defection of the Praja-Socialists, who used to join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
Ripe for Laughs. In a red plaid sports cap and corduroy trousers full of holes, the bird man was soon out on Commonwealth Avenue collecting crowds in skeptic ranks. In his hands he carried what looked like two thin aluminum cricket bats. Around his neck was a lanyard from which dangled a long aluminum tube. The trees were ripe with starlings; Mount Vernon was ripe for a laugh...