Word: pathetic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Czechoslovakia, hand grenades and medical supplies bearing Chinese lettering. Laotian witnesses testified that troops attacking them were identifiable as North Vietnamese not only by their green uniforms but by their language ("Mau! Mau!"-Quick! Quick!) and even by the common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels admitted that from one-third to one-half of their units were filled out by North Vietnamese. But when the Laotian government was unable to produce any North Viet Nam prisoners, the U.N. team (a Tunisian, a Japanese, an Italian and an Argentinian) was forced to conclude that...
Unhappy Mountaineers. These mountaineers-the Black Thai, the primitive Kha, the opium-growing Meo-have long disliked being ruled by the Lao of the south. A few among the wild hill people fight on the side of the Communist Pathet Lao; many more have a passive indifference toward the government...
...terrorist technique was becoming monotonously familiar: well-trained Communist bands from North Viet Nam came out of hiding after midnight to attack isolated Laotian army outposts, retiring before dawn to let Laotian Communist groups of the Pathet Lao continue the fighting in daylight. This device hardly deceived anyone-everyone knew that Laos' little war is sparked and sponsored by outsiders-but it kept up appearances...
...guerrillas and send them after the Reds. We have a saying in our country: 'When the hand is pierced by a thorn, use a thorn to remove it.' The people are our thorn-they alone can save Samneua." But in these two provinces (long occupied by the Pathet Lao), arming the villagers was in itself a risk: probably not half of the terrorized population of Samneua would remain loyal to the government once the Communists appeared...
...kingdom known as "the land of a million elephants," which five years ago was carved out of French Indo-China in the Geneva conference after Dienbienphu. It has Communists to the north of it (China), Communists to the east of it (North Viet Nam), and Communists inside it (the Pathet Lao). Only 18 months ago it seemed to be slipping inexorably toward Red rule. As the result of a queer, credulous armistice with its own Communist rebels, the Laotian government reserved two of its Cabinet posts for Communists and agreed to absorb two battalions of Communist rebels into the royal...