found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Souvanna Phouma Papers, 1961-70(General Vang Pao; led Hmong soldiers in campaigns on the Plain of Jars, Laos, against the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao)
found: Shadow war, 1995:p. 7 (Vang Pao; 1st Hmong grad. of the ANL's Dong Hene academy; would later play major role in Lao history) index (Vang Pao, Gen.)
found: At war in the shadow of Vietnam, 1993:index (Vang Pao)
found: New York times WWW site, Jan. 10, 2011(in obituary published Jan. 8: Vang Pao; b. Dec. 1929, northeast Laos; d. Thursday [Jan. 6, 2011], Clovis, Calif., aged 81; charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, then achieved almost kinglike status as their leader-in-exile in the United States)