It is sometimes easier to get a message from the moon than from Laos. Tucked in the jungle fastnesses of Southeast Asia, Laos has no telephone communication with the outside world; telegraph messages tend to run as late as 48 hours; the U.S. aid mission in the capital city of Vientiane (pop. 25,000) has a radiotelephone link with the U.S. aid mission in Bangkok, Thailand, but during the monsoon season, as now, messages are static-ridden and fragmentary.
But Laos has a government radio station, which news services monitor, and on the basis of its staticky, chattering and roaring report...
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