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laos
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[ noun ] (government,geography) a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949
Synonyms Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Today Northern_Vietnam is overtly Communist ; Laos is teetering between Communism and pro Communist neutralism ; Cambodia is , for_all_practical_purposes , neutralist . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)This was my second day in Vientiane , the administrative capital of Laos , and my thoughts were none too brave . And now , in March , all Laos suffered a state of siege . Practically all the people of Laos , he explained - about two million of them - are rice farmers , and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows . Harmony in Laos ? |
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