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...slight hope that still remained for some agreement rested on a weekend meeting between the key Laotian princes in Zurich. Up from Nice, where he has been sunning himself, came the U.S.'s favorite Premier, Prince Boun Oum. From Geneva, looking as relaxed as a pair of tourists, came Russia's favorite Premier, "neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma, and his brother, "Red Prince" Souphanou-vong, who commands the Pathet Lao. Prince Souvanna greeted his rival warmly and talked in friendly style about getting together on a "broad-based coalition government." The way things were going back home, one diplomat...
...which had made the cease-fire its only small condition for attending the conference, had no ready counter. The pro-Western Laotian Premier, Prince Boun Oum, who has been sitting on the Riviera doing nothing in particular, was not much help. "The Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would...
...conference ground to a recess amid vague hopes that Kennedy and Khrushchev might have some new ideas at Vienna. The peace talks at Ban Namone, deep in the jungle, had dwindled to thrice-a-week meetings between second-stringers. Pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum flew off to one of his favorite places, the Riviera, ostensibly to talk to Sihanouk...
...International Control Commission, which is supposed to be policing the truce, simply threw up its hands. Wrote Chairman Samar Sen, an Indian civil servant: "In the jungle, it is nearly impossible to say who shot first or who gave the first provocation." Obviously, unsympathetic to what he called "the Boun Oum group," Sen said he had no "detailed evidence" to back up repeated government charges of Pathet Lao raids-and he showed no desire to go into the jungle...
...months ago, Sarit was offering to send Thai troops into Laos to help the Boun Oum government, if the U.S. was willing to back him up. Now he feels sorely threatened, welcomed Johnson's talk of increased military aid. But he does not now want U.S. troops. Instead, his faith in U.S. resolution shaken, he is talking of shifting to a more neutral stance. Recently he apologized to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Nikolaev for being unable to like Communism, said he would welcome aid from any source. His apparent intent is not to swing Thailand into the Communist camp...