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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Laos</title>
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   <title type="html">Regional Infectious Disease Surveillance Networks and Their Potential to Facilitate the Implementation of the International Health Regulations</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081106.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2008</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2008</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 present a challenge and opportunity for global surveillance and control of infectious diseases.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">User&amp;rsquo;s Guide to Southeast Asia Combat Data</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1815.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1976</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1976</updated>
   <summary type="html">A detailed guide to the vast body of available combat and combat-related data from the recent war in Southeast Asia.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Impact of U.S. Domestic Law on the Last Days of American Presence in Vietnam</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5583.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1975</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1975</updated>
   <summary type="html">A discussion of Public Law 93-50 forbidding expenditure of U.S. funds for combat in Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam after 15 August 1973, and the War Powers Resolution limiting the President&apos;s power to engage U.S. troops, and how...</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Pathet Lao: Leadership and Organization</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R0949.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1973</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1973</updated>
   <summary type="html">Analyzes the Laotian revolutionary movement commonly known as the Pathet Lao &#8212; its leaders, commanding party (People&apos;s Party of Laos), the Lao Patriotic Front, the political and administrative organization, and military forces.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Organizing and Managing Unconventional War in Laos, 1962-1970</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R919.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1972</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1972</updated>
   <summary type="html">A case study in a broader examination of the strengths and weakness of the U.S. government in dealing with counterinsurgency.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Soviet Union, China, and the Pathet Lao: Analysis and Chronology</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4765.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1972</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1972</updated>
   <summary type="html">The ultimate outcome of events in Laos will be greatly affected by the policies of Moscow and Peking.  </summary>
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   <title type="html">Education in the Communist Zone of Laos</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4726.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1971</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1971</updated>
   <summary type="html">The discussion, supported by statistical data and providing comparisons with the non-Communist educational effort in Laos, covers the aims, organization, literacy drive, and accomplishments of the present Pathet Lao regime.</summary>
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   <title type="html">PREMIR: A Prediction Model for Infiltration Routes</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R0656.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1971</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1971</updated>
   <summary type="html">This mathematical computer model provides a systematic approach for investigating route selection criteria and degree of randomness, provided some infiltration routes are known to the investigator.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Indochina in North Vietnamese Strategy</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4605.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1971</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1971</updated>
   <summary type="html">Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam have been recognized as an interdependent front by Communist strategists for 19 years.  Vietnamese Communists have been involved in Indochinese affairs for approximately 40 years.  </summary>
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   <title type="html">Notes on Minority Policies in Laos, by Arthur D. Stillman.</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4381.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1970</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1970</updated>
   <summary type="html">Rapidly being enlisted on one side or the other as a result of the Southeast Asian war, the minorities in Laos are briefly profiled in these notes dealing with the social, economic, and political effects of the conflict between the Royal Lao and Path...</summary>
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   <title type="html">Laos: Preparing for a Settlement in Vietnam</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4024.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1969</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1969</updated>
   <summary type="html">An outline of the military, political, and economic situation in Laos and the implications for a settlement in Vietnam.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Revolution in Laos: The North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM5935.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1969</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1969</updated>
   <summary type="html">An analysis of the role of Vietnamese Communists in the Lao Communist (Pathet Lao) insurgency.  </summary>
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   <title type="html">Comments on Bernard Fall&apos;s The Pathet Lao : A &apos;Liberation&apos; Party.</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3751.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1968</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1968</updated>
   <summary type="html">A comment prepared in lieu of a revision of the late Bernard Fall&apos;s study of the Pathet Lao movement in Robert A. Scalapino (ed.), [The Communist Revolution in Asia].  In 1965, the international relations of the Pathet Lao movement and the role playe...</summary>
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   <title type="html">The North Vietnamese Military Adviser in Laos: A First Hand Account</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM5688.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1968</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1968</updated>
   <summary type="html">An analysis of the North Vietnamese role in Laos.  </summary>
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   <title type="html">Laos: Search for Peace in the Midst of War</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3748.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1967</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1967</updated>
   <summary type="html">A survey of political and economic developments in Laos during 1967. </summary>
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   <title type="html">The Role of North Vietnam in the Southern Insurgency</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM4140.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1964</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1964</updated>
   <summary type="html">An examination of the role that North Vietnam is playing in the present struggle in South Vietnam.  The Momorandum also discusses the function of Laos and Cambodia in providing passage and safe haven for the insurgents. </summary>
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   <title type="html">China&apos;s Relations with Asian Neighbors</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2947.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1964</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1964</updated>
   <summary type="html">A review of China&apos;s 1964 attitudes toward her Asian neighbors.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Laos in strategic prospective [by] H.B. Fredman.</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2330.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1961</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1961</updated>
   <summary type="html">A review of the strategic value of Laos since the 19th century European struggle in Southeast Asia for balance of power. After the decline of French power in 1945, the Communist bloc and the JWestern alliance became the two contending powers in the a...</summary>
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   <title type="html">Laos: the current phase in a cyclic regional revolution</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2214.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1961</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1961</updated>
   <summary type="html">A discussion of cyclic regional revolution (defined as a conflict technique which, in accordance with international communism, exploits national liberation movements). This technique, better than any other, minimies the jeopardy to the Soviet Union&apos;s...</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Lao elite: a study of tradition and innovation.</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2636.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1960</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1960</updated>
   <summary type="html">An attempt to define the Lao elite and to show their relationship to other groups in the population. The study discusses the various pressures for change and points of friction. Although many strains exist within the social system of Laos, they do no...</summary>
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