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Western diplomats hardly shared the ecstasy, but they agreed that Laos has just a little more reason to be happy than usual. In recent months, since the Communist Pathet Lao overran the Plain of Jars last May, neutralist and rightist forces have regained 2,000 sq. mi. of territory. Route 13 north of Vientiane is now cleared of a Red blockade, as is intersecting Route 7 almost to the Plain of Jars. South of the Plain, right-wing troops captured 350 sq. mi. around Tha Thom. The Pathet Lao have often fallen back without a fight, and some 500 Communist...
Britain does not intend to leave its former colony high and dry, has committed $15 million to an ambitious five-year industrial-expansion program that has already created a small but thriving factory district in Valletta. But Malta is far too tiny (122 sq. mi.) and barren to produce enough to feed its dense population of 330,000. So Nationalist Prime Minister George Borg Olivier is taking the path of Malta's history: loudly promoting the glories of its wide beaches, its ornate cathedrals, mosques and fortresses, and its 4,000-year-old ruins, he is looking forward...
...Plain of Jars. Well aware that the Pathet Lao would soon be on their trail, the six walked as quickly as Klusmann's injured knee would permit. It was a long, hard haul to reach the purple plain. On the third night, Klusmann and a guard named Bonn Mi stopped to rest in an abandoned hut; the others, foraging for food, ran into Pathet Lao pursuers instead...
Alarmed by the resulting commotion, Klusmann and Boun Mi fled at full speed, finally stumbled into a Meo village north of the Plain of Jars. There word was flashed to the U.S. Air Force at Udon base in neighboring Thailand. Within hours, a helicopter was flying Klusmann to safety; and last week, 30 Ibs. lighter, but in excellent health, Chuck was reunited with his wife and two children in San Diego. He arrived scarcely two weeks after his letter...
Tiles & Horseshoe. The ruins, says Savoy, cover some 6 to 10 sq. mi. and stretch across three succeeding plateaus. The first plateau-roughly four times the size of Machu Picchu-begins at about 4,500 ft.; the second is at 5,500 ft., and the last, poking eerily up through a misty halo of clouds, may reach as high...