Word: vang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arranged in the usual haphazard way that Laotians get things done. The Royal Army insisted on meeting in no man's land near a village called Ban Vang Ky. As a point of pride, the Communist Pathet Lao demanded rather that the two sides meet at Ban Namone. Instead, a Royal Army lieutenant colonel and a Pathet Lao major ran into each other near a place called Ban Hin Heup and agreed to come back next day with some white flags and aides. They did, and agreed to a "theoretical and provisional" ceasefire, leaving the details imprecise. Nonetheless...
...from the U.S., pro-Western Premier Boun Oum of Laos eagerly accepted the ceasefire, and even set a day and time for the guns to fall silent. The rampaging Communist-led Pathet Lao agreed to the ceasefire, too, but meanwhile its troops keep right on fighting and advancing. At Vang Vieng, a military headquarters 65 miles north of the capital city of Vientiane, some 400 Pathet Lap launched a dawn attack and chased twice as many government troops 40 miles down the road toward the capital. Among the casualties: three members of a U.S. military mission intended to buck...
...hide.") Last week U.S. guerrilla warfare experts, members of a new outfit called the Liaison Training and Advisory Group (LTAG), helicoptered into mountain valleys behind the enemy lines, where Meo tribesmen gathered as many as 400 strong to greet their new weapons and instructors. The Meo's Colonel Vang Phao now runs a mortar and rifle range in the mountains with U.S. help. One Meo guerrilla band ambushed a Pathet Lao column last week, killed 30 and wounded some 60 more...
Barrage-Happy. Their objective was the town of Vang Vieng, 65 miles north of the administrative capital of Vientiane (see map). Their favorite tactic was long-range assault by 105-mm. howitzers-Laotian soldiers, as good Buddhists, can seldom bring themselves to fire at any enemy they can actually see. Last week, after taking 29 days to travel the 65 miles, and warming up with a few shots at villages along the way, the army hove to outside Vang Vieng, 880 strong. They laid down their usual barrage, the Communist defenders fled, and the attackers moved in almost without incident...
Last week, while the attention of the world (and the Laotian army) was diverted by the supposed invasion from North Viet Nam, Russian Ilyushins slipped into a newly bulldozed airstrip at Vang Vieng, picked up Kong Le, 400 of his men and about 300 tons of supplies and dropped the whole load on the strategic Plaine des Jarres, a broad plateau that commands north central Laos (see map). Kong Le's first step was to capture an airstrip to handle the Ilyushins. Next he captured the town of Xiengkhouang...