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...former French colony, Laos drifted into independence after World War II, under the custody of a fractious royal family. The two chief rivals: Prince Souvanna Phouma, who became Premier, and his half brother, Prince Souphanouvong, who became a follower of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and headed the guerrilla Pathet Lao. Fighting between their forces continued fitfully for years, and the war in neighboring Viet Nam turned dreamy little Laos into a strategic battleground, a Communist sanctuary and supply route between North and South...
When a peace settlement was reached in Viet Nam, the peripheral war in Laos lost much of its urgency. Despite ringing rhetoric by all U.S. Presidents since Dwight Eisenhower about the pivotal role of Laos in Southeast Asia, the U.S. last week urged Premier Souvanna to agree to a ceasefire. In desperation he accepted a settlement that gives the Communist Pathet Lao just about everything it has asked for ending the shooting. The Communists will be allowed to retain the land they now control, which is about two-thirds of the country (but includes only one-third of the population...
...final settlement was negotiated by Souvanna, now 72, after more than 19 weeks of talks with the Pathet Lao; rival Prince Souphanouvong sent only an intermediary to bargain with his brother. Whether Souvanna Phouma will now retain his top position in the new government is not certain, although the concessions he made to the Communists could have been motivated by his desire to do so. Complained one top administrator: "Souvanna capitulated on every point except one-that he should be Prime Minister-and he didn't even get that in writing...
...reconciliation" like this first month since the treaty was signed in Paris, the Vietnamese might well be in need of an armistice to end the "peace." Canadian truce supervisors complain that the fighting in South Vietnam is still too intense to permit careful "truce" supervision. Fighting continues in Laos, although Pathet Lao and government officials established a formal cease-fire on February 22. In Cambodia, American B52's have continued to bomb in support of that country's military dictatorship. And at the 13-nation peace conference in Paris, haggling over Saigon's refusal to release civilian political prisoners, over...
...must also respect the political p. visions of the Laos agreement by not inciting the Lao rigntists--such as Phoumi Nosavan--as it has in the past. The new Laos agreement accurately reflects the current social and political situation in the country--as exemplified by the provision for neutralist intellectuals to be mediators in the new coalition government. The question is: will the agreement have a chance to take effect before the Central Intelligence Agency begins demolition...