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With the confusion nearly total, the Communist Pathet Lao seized the opportunity to strike. Last week some 200 of the Red troops thrust into the strategic Mekong River town of Ban Lat Hane only 20 miles north of the royal capital of Luangprabang, routing the government forces defending it. Whether it was the opening of a fresh Pathet Lao offensive or merely a hunger strike, no one could say, but hunger undoubtedly played a part. With the rice crops off 35% because of the floods, the Communists will be forced this fall to probe deeper than usual into government territory...
Whatever the reason for the incursion, it was enough to galvanize the anti-Communists into action. They got their eleven fighter-bombers back from Thailand, though the rebellious pilots, Laos' best, stayed behind in Korat. Stiffened, the air force began airlifting soldiers up to Ban Lat Hane to drive out the invaders. And Prince Souvanna Phouma, who had returned from Europe at the news of the air force revolt, appeared at a news conference immaculately dressed in a double-breasted blue suit and white tie to give Kong Le a long-distance pat on the back, announcing that...
...late report last night revealed that four undergraduates were preparing to sleep out of doors in the Gore Hall quadrangle because of the unseasonable heat. They were: Hane H. Estin '49, Stephen F. Davis '49, Richard H. Cummings '48, and Dwight Lawrence '51, all of Winthrop House...
...increase efficiency in the operations and training of the vessels." The new patrol force will include units of the Atlantic Squadron, the neutrality patrol, and plane forces. It will be under Admiral James O. Richardson, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, and Commanded directly by Rear Admiral Hane Ellis, now chief of the Atlantic Squadron...
...names were added to the list yesterday when it was announced that the Czech Consul, Mr. Hane, and Samuel Rea, who works under Gallup in the American Institute of Public Opinion and has recently returned from the continent, would participate in the section dealing with propaganda and the war in Europe...