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Chapter Nineteen
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At this point, in early June 1971, Hmong patrols infiltrated onto the southern
Plain of Jars, and the NVA 866" Regiment, probabl y short of supplies, put
up only modest resistance. Vang Pao had hy now met the station's demand for
a consolidation of the line southwest of the Plain of Jars, and Ambassador
Godley considered that he had the authority to support a Hmong offensive. At
the US Mission in Vientiane, the tactical and political circumstances seemed
clea rly to favor aggressive action. 12 D
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