Laos: Quiz

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after the French defeat at the Battle of Muong Khoua during the French Indochina War, the four surviving soldiers trekked 80 kilometres (50 mi) through the jungle of Laos to safety?
in the book A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was highly critical of United States Ambassador to Laos J. Graham Parsons who he felt "drastically misconceived the situation" in Laos?
a single cave in the Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos is used by at least 22 species of bats?
American money was diverted from an airport to build the Patuxai monument (pictured) in Vientiane, Laos?
Namkha village, established by the Lao Lom people in 1906, is the oldest village in Pha Oudom District, Laos?
Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?

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