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...sweltering, 100° heat of dusty Vientiane, Foreign Minister Khampan Panya blandly told reporters. "Sometimes the truth appears to be untrue." The deceptive "truth": the incredible majorities run up by the pro-government candidates of the National Front in last week's general election for a new Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: A Thousand to One | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed an urgent appeal to the U.N. Cabled Khampan: "In face of this fagrant aggression, for which [North] Viet Nam must bear the entire responsibility . . . the Royal Laotian Government requests the prompt dispatch of a [U.N.] emergency force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Over the River | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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