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A fact from Operation Phalat appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 March 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Operation Phalat was a preventative strike into Laos by Thai forces in 1971 to contain communist influence in the region?

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"Mountain Slope"

Which entity referred to the operation as "Mountain Slope"? Or is that a translation of the word "Phalat"? AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 09:42, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]