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Waiting for October. The tough Laotian army paratroops around Samneua are in good spirits, despite low pay and meager supplies; in recent weeks they have brought in 50 prisoners and killed 200 rebels in difficult jungle warfare. In general, however, Laos' 25,000-man army is poorly trained and must fight piecemeal over large parts of the country. New Communist attacks in four other Laotian provinces last week were obviously designed to spread the defenses even thinner. Some Laotian leaders concede that
Hoping to forestall further attacks, Laos' hard-pressed Premier Phoui Sananikone rushed his brother, former Defense Minister Ngon Sananikone, to New York to put Laos' case before U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Peking promptly huffed that "serious consequences" would follow if the U.N. sent observers to Laos, and held secret conferences in Peking with North Viet Nam Boss Ho Chi Minh. Moscow's Pravda blamed all the trouble on the U.S., and said that the Laotian government is pushing the country to "the abyss of civil war" by a policy of "terror and savage reprisals against...
...signs of thawing. The Kashmir issue still divides the two countries, but their quarrel over dividing the canal waters of the Indus Basin (TIME, June 1) seems to be heading for amicable settlement. At first, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had hard words for the government of Pakistan's General Mohammed Ayub Khan ("a naked military dictatorship"). But Ayub's incorruptibility, his undeniable popularity, and his own sensible willingness to patch things up with India has done a lot to diminish the enmities that grew out of the violent partition of India and Pakistan twelve years ago, when between...
...week's end word came that General Ayub, in flying the 1,000 miles across India that divides West and East Pakistan, will make what is officially described as a "fuel stop" at the Indian capital of New Delhi on Sept. 1, and will have time enough for a chat with India's Nehru, the first meeting of the two heads of state. One item that may well be discussed: General Ayub's suggestion last spring that Pakistan and India get together for the joint defense of the Indian subcontinent, an idea that Nehru-confronted with...
...into economic and political chaos and, finally, take desperate refuge in military rule that is usually efficient and honest but still dictatorship. Last week, after two years of freedom, the Federation of Malaya was proving a happy democratic exception to the rule. In the independent nation's first general election, contending parties wooed the voters with posters, sound trucks, leaflets dropped from planes...