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...appeal for assistance, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo described Tropical Storm Ketsana, which hit Manila on Sept. 26, as a "once-in-a-lifetime typhoon." A month's worth of rain deluged the city in the space of 12 hours. "The system is overwhelmed, local government units are overwhelmed," said Anthony Golez of the state's National Disaster Coordinating Council at a press conference on Sept. 28. (See pictures of the storm...
...Reds' persistent subversion is alienating the top neutralist commanders, and last week an open split seemed a possibility. While showing a movie at his house on the Plaine des Jarres. the neutralist army's second in command, Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, was shot in the back. At Ketsana's funeral last week, Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le, who once worked hand in glove with the Pathet Lao, made no effort to conceal his disenchantment with his former cohorts. "This odious crime," said Kong Le, "was the work of those who are under a foreign influence." Kong...
...neutralist officers wondered where the Reds would strike next. One recalled that a ranking Pathet Lao officer told him last fall that the Communists had plans for Kong Le's top four subordinates: "We are going to thoroughly liquidate all four of you." With Ketsana's death, there was one down and three...
Died. Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, 35, second-in-command to Neutralist Laotian Army General Kong Le, one of the original 17 officers who helped Kong Le carry out his 1960 coup d'état, a man considered violently anti-American until last year when he reportedly began reversing his ideas; by assassination (he was shot in the back while relieving himself behind his home); in Phongsavan at Plaine des Jarres. The murder, widely believed to be the work of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, happened only 36 hours after Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma left on a world tour...