19), the stage was set for trouble. Showdown. Kong Le began by reinforcing his garrison with 2,000 Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas from the nearby jungles. Then he turned for further aid to his ...

The Harvard graduate, Arthur D. Stillman, and his companions, one American and two Laotians, were killed by a rocket fired into their jeep by Pathet Lao forces. Stillman was the deputy chief of ...

A French colony until the 1953, the power struggle which ensued between royalists and the communist group Pathet Lao also saw the country caught up in the Vietnam War. Communist forces overthrew ...

A French colony until the 1953, the power struggle which ensued between royalists and the communist group Pathet Lao also saw the country caught up in the Vietnam War. Communist forces overthrew ...

He goes with June 10, 1951. The date makes him 8 when the Pathet Lao – a political movement in Laos allied with the Vietnamese communists – expanded its power. As the fighting escalated ...

The Communist ties between Vietnam and Laos dated back to the Vietnam War years, when North Vietnam assisted the communist Pathet Lao in its armed struggles against the Kingdom of Laos.

The southeast Asian nation had been wracked by a civil war pitting right-wing royalists against Pathet Lao communists—the latter backed by North Vietnam, which used Laotian territory to ...

After taking the capital city of Vientiane by storm, Laos’ General Phoumi Nosavan moved to town with his new Premier, easygoing Prince Boun Oum, and a clutch of U.S. “advisers.” A majority ...

But in these limestone caves the Pathet Lao established bedrooms, offices, a theatre, elephant enclosure, bakery, hospitals, a printing press and a bank. They lived, worked, survived, and attended ...

The southeast Asian nation had been wracked by a civil war pitting right-wing royalists against Pathet Lao communists—the latter backed by North Vietnam, which used Laotian territory to ...