1972 in Laos

The following lists events that happened during 1972 in Laos.

1972
in
Laos

Decades:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
See also:Other events of 1972
List of years in Laos

Incumbents

Events

January

Deaths

  • 18 October - Vang Sue, Hmong fighter pilot, shot down by anti-aircraft fire (b. 1945)
gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.
gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.
gollark: So you have to *vote* on who gets everything?
gollark: If you have some random authority decide who needs them, then... well, that won't really work very well - it doesn't scale to more complex things than allocating one resource, and that is obviously uncool central power.

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