Word: xiengkhouang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been pinching off supplies to Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le and bribing his officers to defect. Last week, with Kong Le's food and ammunition rations down to the two-day level, the Reds, in a blaze of gunfire, sliced off another chunk of neutralist territory at Xiengkhouang, just south of the plateau...
...Foreign Lackeys." Trouble began when the Pathet Lao, supported by the Viet Minh, opened fire on a group of Kong Le's soldiers fishing in their off-duty hours near the town of Khang Khay. Then the Reds advanced on the neutralist stronghold at Xiengkhouang, and launched a mortar barrage that forced Kong Le's forces out of the town. With full-scale civil war threatening to break out on the Plaine des Jarres, Kong Le evacuated the wives and children of his men to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. As the bedraggled neutralist forces...
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...
...week's end "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma, who has already been named Premier of the still-to-be-formed coalition government, entertained visitors at his country house near Xiengkhouang. His victory, says the prince, is "inevitable," and he has already invited Russian technicians to study a 100,000-kw. power plant for Xiengkhouang, and asked Red North Viet Nam to build him a small hotel and houses for the diplomatic corps. He added genially: "I am encouraged by U.S. and Russian agreement on a neutral Laos." As he spoke, grey Ilyushin transports lumbered overhead on their way to land...
Fighting sputtered on despite the ceasefire. American pilots stood their planes on their wingtips to swoop down and drop supplies to a garrison of Meo tribesmen under daily attack in the mountain village of Padong, only 20 miles from the Communist "capital" of Xiengkhouang. In one five-day period, 40 Russian planes delivered 80 tons of supplies to the Pathet...