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Iron-Curtain Twelve. The immediate conference issue seemed small: where should the three princes-pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum, Red Prince Souphanouvong, and "neutralist"' Prince Souvanna Phouma-meet to form a new government? Boun Oum's man had held out for the royal capital of Luangprabang, but now agreed that the meeting should take place at the village of Hin Heup on the Lik River, where one bank is held by the Royal Laotian Army and the other by the Communist Pathet...
Hans Gresmann, of Die Zeit, an independent paper in Hamburg, asserted that only a miracle can give Willie Brandt's Social Democratic Party a ruling majority in September's contest, the fourth since the establishment of the Boun Republic in 1949. In the 1957 election Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union gained 50.2 per cent of the national vote, against 30 per cent for the Socialists...
...occasion was the private summit conference of the three key Laotian princes, who met amidst a swirl of tubby vacationers at Zurich's Dolder Grand Hotel. At the end of five days of talk, greying Prince Boun Oum, ineffectual Premier of the royal government, sighed wearily: "All I want is tranquillity." Prince Souvanna Phouma, who espouses a doctrine called "neutrality in neutralism" and who is recognized as Premier by the Communists, tolerantly explained: "Boun Oum is a patriot, but he let himself be used by the Americans. He wants to get out of politics. I would like...
...side was ably represented by his half brother, "Red Prince" Souphanouvong, who commands the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas. Souphanouvong pressed his points hard, and Boun Oum soon collapsed. Boun Oum agreed to merge the royal army with the Pathet Lao-though just how this could be accomplished while the Pathet Lao were still periodically storming army outposts back in Laos, nobody could explain. The three princes bucked to dreamy King Savang Vatthana the thorny task of picking a coalition government, a procedure that would effectively bypass the National Assembly, where Boun Oum still commands a strong anti-Communist majority. Boun...
Good Loser. Genial in defeat (he quickly made friends with three blondes in Zurich), Boun Oum might have given away still more points had not the Bolder Grand told the princes that they would have to get out to make room for tourists. That shifted the scene once again to the 14-nation conference on Laos in Geneva, where prospects were no more encouraging. The argument was mostly about helicopters (did or did not the I.C.C. need them to police the cease-fire?). Publicly, the U.S. promised to pull out its 300 military advisers from Laos if North Viet...