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...June 18.On June 21, 1967, Spinler was aboard an A-1E Skyraider aircraft attacking enemy targets along the Xekong River in Laos when villagers reported hearing an explosion before his aircraft crashed.For years, his body was presumed to have been washed...
...journalists and a Minnesota man detained in Laos nearly two weeks ago for alleged involvement...the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Laos, accompanied by a handwritten note to...journalists in the remote jungles of northeastern Laos. Mua was acting as an interpreter. Lao...
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- A Laotian airliner crashed into a mountain, killing eight of the 15 people on board, including foreigners, officials...
...the Wise Road.Gillette was a fighter pilot in the Air Force who served in Southeast Asia where he flew F-4 Phantoms into Laos and Cambodia.Later he served as an F-15 Eagle Pilot in the Netherlands and served in Operation Desert Storm.He and his...
...for his work drawing on the country's rocky history. Jan. 5. Vang Pao, 81. A revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos, who led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army in the Vietnam war. Jan. 6. Jiri Dienstbier, 73. A...
...After spending a month imprisoned in Laos, life is starting to return to normal...been reporting on the Hmong insurgency in Laos and Mua was their interpreter. Despite...to contact Hmong resistance fighters in Laos, Mua's home country. It would be a...
...Naw-Karl Mua, who had been imprisoned in Laos. But their hope was still shaky Wednesday...Douglas Hartwick, the U.S. ambassador to Laos, wrote that when he went to sign Mua's...relieved that he (is) finally departing Laos." Mua was released following heavy pressure...
...wanted to learn how war and migration from Laos affected other Hmong women but found little...hills, mothers who raised children in Laos and this country, and granddaughters ending...courageous and had leadership abilities." In Laos, women traditionally were not community...
DULUTH (AP) -- An influx of immigrants from such places as Mexico, Laos, Somalia and Bosnia is breathing new life into rural Minnesota communities even as it poses new challenges, particularly in education...
NEW YORK -- Whether they are soldiers fighting in the frozen tundra of Afghanistan, teams searching the Laos jungle for remains of Vietnam War pilots, or firefighters digging into the debris at ground zero, they are driven by a single...