Since the Geneva accords of 1962 established its tripartite “neutrality,” the landlocked, Lilliputian kingdom of Laos has teetered continually on the cliff-edge of chaos. Torn between the demands of ...
"If they take over the town or city, wherever, they collect everything," says Vang of the Pathet Lao soldiers. "You have five chickens, they take two for the soldier. If you have rice and you have ...
The silvery Cessna Wren scudded high above the Plain of Jars, and the tiny man in rumpled fatigues peered down through eyes red-rimmed with exhaustion. Below him the wind moved casually over ...