Word: savannakhet
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...accumulation of substantial commercial interests, apart from his airline and the profits from buildings rented to Americans in Vientiane. These include cement and pig iron factories in Thakkek, a tin mine which accounts for perhaps one fourth of the Country's total production, saw mills in Sedone and Savannakhet, and substantial forests and agricultural land...
...combined Thai-Laotian force from Savannakhet, near the western border of the panhandle, was to have moved eastward along Route 9 to Muong Phine, another major junction and site of the main enemy supply caches. That force is only halfway to its destination and bucking heavy resistance...
...exclaimed, "The problem is that we're on the defensive here. We have no real policy. All we can do is keep on bombing and killing. But how much longer can it last? What do we do if the Pather Lao get very much closer? Bomb Pakse, Savannakhet, or Vientiane...
...enforce their demands, the rebels revealed they had taken three important prisoners: Royalist Army Commander General Ouane Rathikoun, the commander of the Savannakhet military region in southern Laos, and Prince Sayavong, brother of King Savang Vatthana. Not only that, announced the radio, but unless the terms of the edict were met within an hour, the planes would come back with more bombs...
...might have shared Ma's views, was out of the country. The three prestigious prisoners escaped. And, on the instructions of American Ambassador William Sullivan, U.S. officers from the nearby Udorn airbase in Thailand saw to it that Ma's planes did not leave their base at Savannakhet for the threatened second strike. After a hasty conference with a government representative who flew to Savannakhet, Ma and eleven of his pilots fled across the border to exile in Thailand...