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To find out, we traveled throughout that part of Laos still nominally controlled, in the daytime at least, by the Royal Lao Army: from Attopeu, the City of Buffalo Dung in the southeast, to Muong Sing, the City of Lions in the northwest, close to Communist China ( map, page 250 ).

We rode over roads so rough that our Jeep came to rest atop the soil between ruts, all four wheels spinning uselessly.

We flew in rickety planes so overloaded that we wondered why they didn't crash.

In the end we ran into Communist artillery fire.