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...their wingtips to swoop down and drop supplies to a garrison of Meo tribesmen under daily attack in the mountain village of Padong, only 20 miles from the Communist "capital" of Xiengkhouang. In one five-day period, 40 Russian planes delivered 80 tons of supplies to the Pathet Lao...
...Samar Sen, an Indian civil servant: "In the jungle, it is nearly impossible to say who shot first or who gave the first provocation." Obviously, unsympathetic to what he called "the Boun Oum group," Sen said he had no "detailed evidence" to back up repeated government charges of Pathet Lao raids-and he showed no desire to go into the jungle...
First Retreat. The principal delay had not been Sihanouk's lunch but a wrangle over who would speak for Laos. In what may have been only the first of successive retreats, the U.S. caved in and agreed to seat not one but two pro-Communist del egations, one from the Pathet Lao guerrillas and the other from ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma (who stayed away, but sent his lissome, sari-clad daughter as a delegate). The pro-Western royal Laotian government, on hearing that it would be outnumbered, boycotted the conference-even though a British diplomat in Laos spent...
...I.C.C.'s last sojourn in Laos lasted four years. Laotians were appalled at the cost-salaries, plus $7 per diem, plus free housing, for more than 100 men-which the Geneva signatories were supposed to meet but never did. resulting in a still unsettled international tangle. The I.C.C. commandeered the best quarters in Vientiane. Some of the Indian commissioners refused to bathe in anything but soda water, presumably on the ground that Laotian water was full of parasites. Headed from 1955-57, as now, by Samarendranath Sen, an urbane Indian career civil servant, the commission rarely investigated government charges...
...nation* conference was supposed to get going, the man who proposed it, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, had not shown up (but agreed, after some pleading, to come later). As for the Laotians, the Communist side sent two delegations-one headed by a veteran guerrilla representing the Pathet Lao, the other by a onetime Vientiane bookseller who was standing in for self-styled "neutralist'' Prince Souvanna Phouma. The royal government delegation straggled in two days late...