Word: champassak
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...complicated by natural disasters. During the summer planting this year a severe drought caused a shortfall of roughly 100,000 tons of food grain-10% of the hoped-for harvest. When the rains finally came, the Mekong and Sedone rivers deluged 30% to 40% of the rice land in Champassak, Savannakhet and Khammouane provinces...
...Communists plainly have nothing to fear from the tame rightists in the Cabinet. Earlier in the week, Khamouane Boupha, a Pathet Lao general, had been named acting Defense Minister by Souvanna to replace the rightist Sisouk na Champassak, who had resigned. Boupha immediately issued orders grounding the air force, forbidding all troop movements and demanding declarations of loyalty to the new command from all military units...
...pressure from the left; an unidentified assailant tossed a hand grenade into a car full of rightist politicians and Chinese businessmen. Among the three killed was former Minister of Religion Boun Om, brother of the warlord of southern Laos, whose name is Boun Oum, and uncle of Sisouk na Champassak, the powerful Minister of Defense, who was among those that resigned. It was the first assassination of a rightist political figure since the ceasefire, and has unsettled many leading rightists. They now fear for their own and their families' safety; Boun Oum has reportedly gone into hiding somewhere...
...activity on the part of anti-government guerrilla forces adds even further to the malaise of the Bangkok government. During fighting on the Plain of Jars in December 1971, Thai troops suffered "extremely heavy casualties," according to a London Times interview with the Defense Minister of Laos, Sisouk no Champassak...
...thieves who broke into her $1,500,000 mansion near Cuernavaca, Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold and diamond elephants, the opal stickpin, the emerald cuff links and the rest that she posted a $10,000 reward...