Word: laos
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...Laos. One by one, the dominoes are falling. A French news agency revealed earlier this week that the left-wing Pathet Lao and the U.S.-supported Royal Lao government are winding up negotiations on a formal settlement of their decadelong struggle...
...projected agreement assigns 80 per cent of Laos to the Pathet Lao and gives them widely expanded influence within a coalition government...
...sides will also share the key posts in the new government. The government will retain the interior, finance and defense ministries, while the Pathet Lao assume the foreign ministry...
...important concession to the Pathet Lao, contingents of their troops will be stationed in the capitals--which are within the government zone--and 1500 Pathet Lao will be added to the police forces in the two cities...
...Pathet Lao reportedly want this military show of force in the two capitals to protect their members of the new government...