Kaho Xane Pathet Lao, the official newspaper of the Lao People's Party, (the Communist Party) announced: that the nation's Hmong people "must be exterminated down to the root of the tribe" because their soldiers had assisted the United States in fighting the Communists.
Two days later the genocide would begin.
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The Social Security Administration announced for the very first time that it's retirement and disability program was in debt; and that its $46 billion reserve would be drained by 1983. Notably, President Nixon had extended Medicare, which originally did not apply to everyone, to everyone 62 years of age or older during his Administration.
Television broadcasting began in South Africa.
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Royal Lao General Vang Pao, a Hmong highlander, was ordered by the Prime Minister of Laos to cease resistance to the Pathet Lao.
He resigned instead.
It's almost like the Domino Theory was correct.
Before serving in in the Royal Lao Army, he has served with the French starting during World War Two. He immigrated to the United States where he died in 2011.
101 former RVNAF aircraft at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield were loaded aboard the USS Midway which evacuated 27 A-37s, 3 CH-47s, 25 F-5Es and 45 UH-1Hs.
A further 41 aircraft were flown to the U.S. 54 aircraft were transferred to the Thai Government, these comprised: 1 A-37, 17 C-47s, 1 F-5B, 12 O-1s, 14 U-17s and 9 UH-1Hs.
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A conviction for Marijuana trafficking in 2020 has lead to one Ma Yang, a 37 year old mother of five, being deported to Laos.
It's hard not to note that while marijuana trafficking is illegal, hardly any state in the US cares about growing, selling, and using it now.
She came here from Thailand in 1988 when she wasn't even a year old. She's Hmong. Raised in the US, she doesn't speak an Indochinese language. Her arrest and conviction involved twenty-five other people (probably all Hmong, I'd guess) and she plead guilty and served thirty months in jail.
She shouldn't have done that, but then, the pressure to be involved, which doesn't excuse it, may have been pretty high. Apparently everyone involved lived in the same building.
In jail her green card was revoked and she signed a deportation order, believing, naively that she wouldn't be deported as her folks were from Laos, which doesn't cooperate with the US on such matters.
Well, they did here. She's been in Laos since March, where she doesn't speak the language, and can't get insulin or blood pressure medicine. Getting a job isn't going to be easy.
What's the lesson here?
Well, some would say if you can't do the time, don't do the crime, although she did the time.
Some might say she got bad legal advice. Maybe.
Some would say that this is really inhumane. Given her condition, she's likely to suffer for her crime with death, in short order.
