Word: kone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laos-style bargaining had only begun. Into Vientiane two days after the coup flew portly General Ouane Rathi-kone, who is both Army chief of staff to Premier Somsanith and uncle to Captain Kongle. Ouane Rathikone airily announced that he would work out a solution "en famille." But at week's end a 43-man rump session of the National Assembly meekly gathered in Vientiane to vote no confidence in Somsanith, envoys still shuttled back and forth between the two cities, and no compromise Cabinet had been agreed upon. So far, the only solid accomplishment of Kongle...