Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While its Communist neighbors, Red China and North Viet Nam, hurled threats by radio, tiny Laos last week tried desperately to set its house in order. Tough, grizzled General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, veteran of jungle battles against the French, Chinese, North Viet Nam Reds, and the home-grown Communists of the Pathet Lao, was ordered to solve by force a problem that had not yielded to nearly two years of diplomacy. His task: to integrate into the 25,000 man Royal Laotian army two Communist battalions...
...head of his unarmed troops. When he was searched, the Red leader angrily cried that it was an "un-Buddhist" action. It was also a valuable one, for on his person was found a letter from Red Prince Souphanouvong ordering him not to accept integration until after the next general election...
Jungle Search. General Ouane came storming up to the Plaine des Jarres. ordered paratroops dropped to block the four escape routes to the North Viet Nam border, where Communist Ho Chi Minh was eager to welcome his fleeing comrades from Laos. The stumbling flight of the Reds was halted by armed peasants loyal to the government, who fired on them. The pursuing royal troops closed in, and General Ouane demanded surrender by dawn...
...Burma seems to doubt that General Ne Win's military regime will, in due course, call general elections and hand the country back to civilian rule. But due course is not soon enough for U Nu, the moonfaced ex-Premier who called the soldiers in when his own political dominance began to crumble...
...rooted in his belief that high officers are in league with U Nu's political rivals to prevent his victory at the next elections-whenever they are held. The army has also embarrassed U Nu by turning up numerous cases of corruption in his government. So far, by general agreement, General Ne Win has served Burma well. He has kept prices generally stable, has cleared miles of hideous Rangoon slums, and moved 100,000 squatters out of the city. The general has not tampered with the courts or the press. Still, army rule is, by its own declaration, temporary...