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pathet

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The pathet ( Javanese spelling; also patet ) is an organizing concept in gamelan music. It is difficult to explain, but is similar to the melody types , that is, for example, modes , ragas , or maqamat , of other musics. The term means 'to restrain' in ...

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The Pathet Lao government was encouraging American interest in Laos, in order to counter the Thais.

By keeping the Pathet Lao busy with the help of the CIA and the American military, Pao's Hmong tribesmen were able to become the region's largest heroin producers.

Following a failed attack on a Pathet Lao camp, while Chris was being tortured for information (face crushed, appendix ruptured, spine fractured), Chan had led a rescue mission, saving Chris's life.

The territory on the other side is in the hands of the Pathet Lao, which takes orders from Peking.

The Laotian opium fields are temporarily in the hands of the Pathet Lao.

Cambodia had fallen to the Khmer Rouge, Lagos was falling to the Pathet Lao, and the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong were about to enter Saigon.