Word: sais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine detachments had been rushed to Thailand to help protect the vital left bank of the Mekong River from the Communist menace. Yet the Reds, since their overwhelming victory at Nam Tha two weeks ago, have been strangely quiet. The Laotian river town of Houei Sai, evacuated in panic after the fall of Nam Tha, was reoccupied by 300 skittish Royal Laotian Army troops. If anything, the Pathet Lao had retreated, not advanced. With Soviet Russia giving at least verbal agreement to the U.S. policy of creating a neutral Laos, it was apparently time once again to bring together...
...Menshikov and declared that the U.S. viewed the continued fighting with "deep concern." The fighting went right on. Red Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Pathet Lao, boasted: "Our troops and our people are in the position of a victor!" The tiniest Laotian village could read the future. At Ban Sai, barely eight miles from Vientiane, the local chief, who had been begging for U.S. aid to build a market road, last week turned down an offer of $1,000. "Go away and don't come back," he said to a visiting U.S. official. "We don't want your...
...edge. To the south, an anti-Communist army faction led by General Phoumi Nosavan has been in obdurate though mostly nonviolent revolt against Prince Souvanna since last September. On a good will tour a fortnight ago. genial Prince Souvanna awakened one morning in the small northern village of Moung Sai, his head still dizzy from ceremonial quaffing of a strong rice spirit called choum, to learn that the royal capital, Luangprabang. had gone over to General Phoumi. Last week he learned that his army commander in chief. General Ouane Ratthikoun, had also joined the rebels (as have...