Word: savannakhet
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...accumulation of substantial commercial interests, apart from his airline and the profits from buildings rented to Americans in Vientiane. These include cement and pig iron factories in Thakkek, a tin mine which accounts for perhaps one fourth of the Country's total production, saw mills in Sedone and Savannakhet, and substantial forests and agricultural land...
...combined Thai-Laotian force from Savannakhet, near the western border of the panhandle, was to have moved eastward along Route 9 to Muong Phine, another major junction and site of the main enemy supply caches. That force is only halfway to its destination and bucking heavy resistance...
...exclaimed, "The problem is that we're on the defensive here. We have no real policy. All we can do is keep on bombing and killing. But how much longer can it last? What do we do if the Pather Lao get very much closer? Bomb Pakse, Savannakhet, or Vientiane...