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REPORTED TO BE ALIVE, by Grant Wolfkill with Jerry A. Rose. Prisoner-of-war horrors are only the setting for NBC Cameraman Wolfkill's personal account of his 15-month imprisonment by the Communist Pathet Lao. The real story lies in the details of a human being's contest with himself and his sanity while at the mercy of the merciless...
...agreement in Laos. The place was a field in the middle of the jungle north Vientiane, the Laotian capital. In the helicopter were three Americans and a squad of Laotian right-wing soldiers. Before the day ended, the soldiers had fled, and the Americans were captives of the Communist Pathet...
...them looses a burst of machine-gun fire above the heads of the squatting, dysentery-stricken Americans should be enlightening. So, in a different manner, should be the details of the chill and efficient command role played in Laos by tough North Vietnamese Communists, whose presence the Pathet Lao then denied-and still...
Common Cause. What's more, Prince Souvanna Phouma's government, officially neutralist but leaning toward the West, is beginning to show signs of political stability. Although the Communist Pathet Lao technically holds four seats in Souvanna's Cabinet, the Reds walked out on him two years ago, and refuse to come back. And ever since the banishment of troublemaking Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan, who was exiled in February after his third at tempted coup, the sailing has been even smoother. Other right-wing leaders have made common cause with Souvanna, and rightist troops often join General Kong...
...Pathet Lao boycotted the elec tions. Lacking the substantial flow of men and arms that North Viet Nam has had to divert to the Viet Cong next door, isolated by its refusal to take part in the government, driven back by gov ernment armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...