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...Royal Laotian Army, a ceasefire could come none too soon. "They've been observing the cease-fire for some time now, anyway," said one U.S. observer dourly. Though all Laotians are reluctant to fight, Royal Laotian soldiers seem even more reluctant than the Communist Pathet Lao. Stiffened by Communist regulars from North Viet Nam, Pathet Lao bands have spread over the land while the talking went on, until fully half of Laos is under their control. The Pathet Lao advance, said a Western diplomat, is not "a push, drive, Panzer or pincer movement-just a leisurely walk through...
Precisely why Khrushchev is so willing to wait in Laos is not difficult to see. In part, of course, it is because he is still engaged in talks with Souvanna Phouma. But, as his letter to President Kennedy on Cuba indicates, the spectre of Cuba is now hovering over all Cold War diplomatic exchanges, and everyone realizes that the United States cannot reserve the right to intervene in Cuba and at the same time take any strong exception to Soviet aid to the Pathet Lao. It is hardly possible, as Khruschev's Cuban note said, to handle matters in such...
...Pathet Lao, showing an un-Marxist feeling for tradition, have already been angling for an invitation. The occasion is doubly auspicious, since it will be the beginning of the Laotian New Year. And the seven days of feasting and drinking, thinks the King, should put anybody in a friendlier mood...
...most conspicuous face of the U.S. was that of a redheaded, freckled Irishman from Larkspur, Calif, named Francis P. Corrigan, 35. It was a face they liked. In four years as the U.S. Information Service's public affairs officer in Luangprabang, Corrigan acquired a working knowledge of the Lao language and a stomach that could take the glutinous rice and fiery red peppers he was served when traveling about the back country. He shot craps with the governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages by plane, Jeep or muleback...
Corrigan got a Lao-language daily newspaper started on a Mimeograph machine, built the King a radio station (advancing part of the money for equipment himself), was trying to get a library going. When the fighting started, Corrigan was in the air more than ever, flying leaflet-dropping missions over enemy lines as well as his movie runs. He distrusted the rickety planes he had to ride, once pointed to a battered single-engined Piper Tri-Pacer and advised a newsman: "I wouldn't fly in that for a million dollars." But when Cor igan got ready to deliver...