The first attack was reportedly intercepted by Laotian troops and a firefight resulted, according to a New York Post quotation from an Associated Press dispatch. There was no confirmation of casualties on either side. There were no reports of fighting during a subsequent raid.

U.S. military probes against Laos have nothing to do with the MIA issue. Washington is seeking to step up military, economic, and diplomatic pressure against Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea.  
 
June 4, 1956
A boycott begun by the Negro people of New Orleans has hit the pocketbooks of the Southern Baseball Association so hard that the league is faced with going out of business. It has, of course, the alternative that Southern Negroes are demanding—abandonment of the lily-white player rule and of segregated seating in the ball parks.

The boycott began about a year ago without any publicity or formal organization. Southern ball club owners and the newspapers tried to prevent its spreading by saying nothing about it. Yet it spread and has cut deeply into gate receipts. Its is estimated that at some parks attendance is 20 percent lower than in previous years.

None of the eight teams in the Southern Association has a single Negro player. All parks have segregated seating.  
 
June 1, 1931
The Scottsboro case affords the party an opportunity, which it has seized, to draw nearer to the masses of Negro workers. It involves nine Negro working class boys. The charge is the usual one—rape. The defendants are transparently innocent. The trial was a farce. Elementary democratic rights were violated. Although the defendants were all minors, defense counsel did not consult their parents for permission to conduct the defense. Their parents were not even notified of their arrest and trial.

All this makes it possible to appeal to broad masses of Negroes on the basis of their racial persecution to smash this capitalist frame-up. This the party has done by giving leadership in the growing protest and defense movement to the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and by appealing to all classes of the Negro population, and the entire Negro press to join in the fight.  
 
 
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