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...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...
Quick Lift. After losing the battle for Vientiane, Kong Le led the remnants of his battalion north to the jungle town of Vang Vieng. The Russians began an airlift from Hanoi to drop him supplies, and he picked up reinforcements from the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas, who roam freely through back-country Laos...
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...
...drama and accomplishment, their duel was the most stirring man-to-man competition of the Olympic Games. Drenched by rain, California's strapping Rafer Johnson, 26 (TiME cover, Aug. 29), and Formosa's wiry Vang Chuan-kwang, 27, had struggled until u p.m. on the first day of the decathlon-the exhausting, ten-event test that would decide which was the world's best all-round athlete. On the second day, after the two men had wearily completed the ninth event (the javelin), statisticians figured that Johnson led Yang by a cliffhanging 67 points...