Word: xiengkhouang
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...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...
...time he reached Communist North Viet Nam and got another welcome from President Ho Chi Minh, Souvanna was grandly ordering the Vientiane "rebels" (meaning the present Laotian government) to send a delegation to his "capital" of Xiengkhouang, in central Laos, to discuss the cease-fire and the "broadening of the government...
...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...
Stinging Taunts. Early in March each year, Meo tribesmen journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into...