Word: luangprabang
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...last week and rushed construction of a concrete and steel war memorial in the capital city of Vientiane. Closing in from north and south, government troops finally cleared a dusty, 150-mile slash of road that serves as the country's major north-south highway between Vientiane and Luangprabang...
...from Red China. Though Boun Oum's generals predicted all-out victory "within a week," most foreign observers on the scene predicted a negotiated truce. Late last week King Savang Vatthana, an easygoing monarch who prefers to remain above politics, reluctantly left his palm-fringed home town of Luangprabang, flew to Vientiane to convene his council of ministers. Purpose: to see if he could devise some sort of coalition government that the Pathet Lao rebels, and their Communist allies abroad, would be willing to strike a deal with...
...major assignment of 29,000 wellarmed, pro-Western troops of the Royal Laotian Army has simply been to clear a 50-mile stretch of road. It runs from the administrative capital of Vientiane, where sits the U.S.-backed government of Premier Prince Boun Oum, to the royal capital of Luangprabang, where King Savang Vatthana lounges under a white parasol taking little interest...
...point, the commander of the column moving south from Luangprabang unleashed 135 rounds of 105-mm howitzer shells at a "suspected sniper." Later, atop a hill, he sent a massive artillery barrage crashing into the unscouted jungle ahead, declaring that "this will scare them off"-and it soon did. Closing on the key road junction of Phou Khoun, the troops from the north and a column from Vientiane raked the junction from both sides...
Reluctant Stalemate. By his one swift Russian-aided move, Kong Le had virtually cut the country in two and was poised to strike either south toward Vientiane or north toward the royal capital of Luangprabang. But he was outmanned by the larger government garrisons and seemed content to fight minor patrol actions. Nor did General Phoumi seem anxious for a battle to the death...