1959 Laotian crisis event
also: 1959 through 61 period
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Laoscountry · 2Communist Party of Chinaorganization · 2Vietnamcountry · 2RAND Corporationorganization · 1Richard Nixonperson · 1Sakkarine Governmentorganization · 1CIAintelligence service · 1United Statescountry · 1
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when Nixon was vice president. A Rand Corporation report on Laos concluded, for example, that in 1959, it was not the pro-communist Laotian Lao that was the right wing, but the right wing Sakakoni government, which had been installed by the…
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The final crisis followed a probe by a government patrol into a small but sensitive disputed area of the Hmong on the North Vietnamese border, which had been governed as part of Vietnam in the days of the French. When the patrol was predict…