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Watching such vignettes in the Southeast Asian powder keg last week, Hong Kong Bureau Chief McCulloch mused that "covering Laos is like being Alice in Wonderland-surrealistic, exasperating, frequently incomprehensible but often utterly delightful." A lunch with the cover subject, General Kong Le, in his headquarters village of Vang Vieng was a study in the country's need as well as its plenty. It was served on a table covered by a red checked tablecloth "with so many holes in it that it must have been riddled by a shotgun." But no one needed to go away hungry from...
Kong Le was on his way to inspect one of his outposts at the edge of the Plain. As his aircraft slewed to a halt near the village of Vang Vieng, he jumped down and stared around at the straggly cluster of palm-thatched huts and muddy walkways that would be his headquarters for the next fight, for it was here that he expected the Communists to resume the attack. Kong Le and his headquarters looked worn, scruffy, far from impressive. But he stood almost alone in Laos last week as the West's only effective battler against Communism...
...tent on the Plain of Jars, wearing a T shirt, a pair of Levi's and rubber bath shoes, Kong Le perches on a stool morosely studying a map beneath the light of a swaying hurricane lamp. The picture is discouraging: the Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince, rub an old battle scar on his forehead...
Blueprints & Money. Communist couriers and political agitators fly into Mexico, fan out across the hemisphere carrying propaganda, blueprints for revolt, and their share of the estimated $120 million annually that goes for Latin American subversion. When a Vang Airlines 707 jet crashed near Lima last November, ten Cubans were on the plane, and Castro rushed a 27-man delegation to pick up the pieces. But the Peruvians collected the evidence first, including documents reportedly detailing guerrilla activities in Brazil. Last week a Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano DC-6B crashed in the Andes on a flight from Arica. Chile...
Phoumi last week could point to a few hopeful military factors. The tough, anti-Red Meo tribesmen control the important Xiengkhouang-Vang Vieng road and force the Reds to supply several bases...