In spite of the fourteen-nation conference, which declared at Geneva in 1962 that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos" class="extiw" title="en:Laos">Laos</a> is a neutral country, and the agreement was signed by the three fractions competing for control of the country, no real progress towards unification and pacification has been made, and fighting is continually breaking out. American sources admit that armed reconnaissance flights are made over communist-controlled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathet_Lao" class="extiw" title="en:Pathet Lao">Pathet Lao</a> part of the country, in the east, along the Vietnamese border, and occasional shots are exchanged. The caption to our picture, received from Hanoi, states that it shows anti-aircraft troops of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_People%27s_Armed_Forces" class="extiw" title="en:Lao People's Armed Forces">Laotian Peoples Liberation Army</a>, and claims they have helped to bring down 102 U.S. aircraft since 1965.
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1967
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