VISLIB FEATURE: AFTER THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE INVASION OF LAOS, A LOOK AT THE TROUBLED POST-W...(1971)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit The South Vietnamese invasion of Laos may well be dubbed ’the war of the Ho Chi Minh trail’. Full Description: NORTH VIETNAM: 1954 Dien Bien Phu fighting. GV’s & MV’s fighting in Dien (9 shots) 1954 Geneva Conference Paramount: GV EXT. Conference building and GV’s & SV’s interior, cease-fire being signed (General Deltel signs for Viet Minh) GENEVA CONFERENCE.: GV ext. conference building and SV delegates arriving (6 shots). Background: The South Vietnamese invasion of Laos may well be dubbed ’the war of the Ho Chi Minh trail’. The Americans and the South Vietnamese seek to break this vital Communist supply line to the war in Vietnam, while the pro-Communist pathet Lao in Laos seek to protect it. This Visnews feature sets the new crisis in Laos in the context of its troubled development since the end of the Second World War, and includes film of two Geneva