1. Laos - Noun
2. Laos - Proper noun
a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949
Source: WordNetHenry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. George Galloway
I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos. Bo Gritz
Every year thousands of people, mostly children and poor farmers, are killed in the Plain of Jars in Northern Laos. Noam Chomsky
The bones of Cambodia, and the millions who risked death to flee communist Vietnam and Laos for an uncertain life anywhere else, tells us about the moral value, though not necessarily the military tactical wisdom, of the anti-communist cause. Alan Charles Kors
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. Noam Chomsky
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future. Noam Chomsky