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...American exodus climaxes a month-long anti-U.S. campaign led by Laotian students and youth, tacitly backed by the government's police and almost certainly organized by the Communist-led Pathet Lao. U.S. involvement in Laos had dwindled to a shadow of what it was in the early 1970s, when several thousand American diplomats, military advisers, economic and agricultural experts and intelligence agents literally ran the country and directed the fight by the rightists against the Communists. Still, as last week began, the U.S. community numbered a sizable 1,000 or so. Of these, 340 were government employees...
...Pathet Lao military policemen at the compound did nothing to halt the looting. The students plastered the compound's fence with crudely lettered signs, proclaiming in Lao, French and English YANKEE GO HOME and CIA OUT, then distributed a manifesto listing their demands. Among them: the immediate dissolution of the USAID mission. Proclaimed the manifesto: "All Americans should be driven out of Laos...
...demonstrations, all U.S. personnel based in the Laotian provinces were recalled to Vientiane. Washington insists, however, that it has no intention of closing the embassy. As long as the coalition continues, the U.S. hopes to maintain a presence in the country. According to some U.S. officials, the Pathet Lao have been saying that they want American aid (currently running at $80 million annually) and an American presence to continue...
Emerging as one of the most important advocates of an independent Laos after World War II, the Prince stressed that his country must not only gain independence from France but also remain independent of the U.S. and North Viet Nam. Now 73, Souvanna realizes that Hanoi will almost certainly wield powerful influence in a Communist Laos, but he seems willing to accept this to see his nation united and at peace. In return, the Pathet Lao are expected to allow Souvanna to remain as Premier. Both he and the King are symbols of national unity. Both, however, will be little...
...Souvanna is the son of his father's first wife; his half brother Souphanouvong, head of the Pathet Lao, is the son of their father's eleventh wife...