Sam Thong place
also: Sam Thung
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And on the press tickers, the world over. Making the scoop as a simple walking down a mountain. Journalists with embassy cooperation chartered Air America planes to a USAID center. The secret warriors were proud of their civic action progra…
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had a 200-bed hospital, a junior high, and a high school. But three journalists were much more interested in the main base of the clandestine army. The three reporters walked out of Sam Thung, then down the trail, leaving behind the larger …
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The North Vietnamese seemed to be everywhere all at once and capable of doing anything to include the plane of jars. There was panic everywhere. An evacuation was hastily ordered. Some 110,000 Hmong sought refuge, carrying out whatever they…
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was improvised. The Long Thien, for the first time in the Hmong War, the base had to be prepared for defense. Vang Pao reduced his headquarters by sending administrative elements elsewhere. Air America was at the center of the action. From …
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and became a major mountain commercial center and a rallying point for the Hmong. Sam Thung became an administrative and medical education center where they could train the troops. The consolidation of this Hmong refuge continued for about …
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rice drops, and supplies of seeds and tools. That's how they bribed the people to become secret warriors. After they had driven them out of their house by creating a civil war, then they bribed them with food because they're starving to be …
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who remained after the 1962 Geneva Convention, Geneva Agreement, but was told to stay out of sight. Known by his radio handle, Sky, Long Tian became the nerve center of the Laotian Secret War. Sam Thong became the administrative, medical, a…
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Within hours, the Laos war was secret no more. The story broke at Long Tien and press tickers all over the world, making the scoop prove as easy as walking down a mountain. Journalists had chartered an Air America plane to Sam Thung's USAID…
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But three reporters were much more interested in Long Tien's clandestine army locations. They walked out of Sam Tung and down the trail to Long Tien, leaving behind the official tour. One reporter actually entered the base and watched for t…