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...plain, there were no outright Red attacks, and the neutralists lost no new territory. But hostilities threatened to erupt from another quarter. Around the perimeter of the plain, right-wing General Phoumi Nosavan was reinforcing his positions, and in the foothills behind the Pathet Lao lines, tough, well-armed Meo tribesmen, who have no love for the Reds, posed a dangerous threat to Communist supply routes from North Viet...
...Communist-held north, in fact, was where the shooting was. And the men being shot were the sturdy Meo tribesmen who form pockets of resistance in the mountains near the Plaine des Jarres and along the Laos-North Viet Nam border. U.S.-supplied and advised, the tough Meo guerrillas still deny to the Communists effective control of these areas. Unfortunately, the Meos are dependent on air drops for everything from food to ammunition. The U.S. therefore faces an unpleasant dilemma: the one useful force it created in Laos is in danger of being starved out unless resupplied by parachute. Souvanna...
...Laotian regime), and NBC Cameraman Grant Wolfkill, who was a passenger in their helicopter when it crashed 40 miles north of the capital. Unlike the others, the three shared a cell, and had been relatively well treated since last April, when they were transferred from the custody of savage Meo tribesmen to a camp run by the Viet Minh Communist troops from North Viet...
Phase One: Coalition. Though it has a king, a government and an army and can be found on a map, Laos does not really exist. Many of its estimated 2,000,000 people would be astonished to be called Laotians, since they know themselves to be Meo or Black Thai or Khalom tribesmen. It is a land without a railroad, a single paved highway or a newspaper. Its chief cash crop is opium...
...jungle surrounding the Pathet Lao stronghold on the Plaine des Jarres, Meo guerrillas also successfully harass the enemy. Even the regular army occasionally shows up well: last month 100 outnumbered government troops fought their way to a village under attack by the Pathet Lao, turned defeat into a victory...