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...like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson," Walter Lippmann writes after his Moscow visit. Certainly the Russian Premier is handling the current Russian-British exchanges on Laos with coolness and detached calculation. Indeed, the deliberation with which both sides in the neotiations are unravelling each knot in the Laotian crisis almost justifies the British government's faith that a settlement is immanent. The importance of a cease-fire, the return of the international commission to Laos, and a 14-power conference to settle the future of that faction-torn land--all are, in vaguest outline, agreed on. The latest...
...conflagration in one area only to kindle fires in another. Cuba and Laos are parallel enough to reveal why it is in Khruschev's interest to move patiently; but by the same token, it is in the West's interest to drive as quickly as it can for a Laotian settlement, whatever happens in Cuba...
When the shooting has stopped, the conference will begin. Souvanna Phouma will have returned by then and can attempt to bring the Laotian factions together into his government. Whatever comes of it, both Russia and the West realize that this conference is probably the last chance for a settlement in Laos...
...governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages by plane, Jeep or muleback to show propaganda films about Communist terrorism. Filmed in Laos, the movies were accompanied by up-to-date versions of the traditional mohlam ballads (a kind of Laotian version of calypso) and were tremendously popular...
...ready to deliver movies to the small town of Hong Sa, the Tri-Pacer was the only plane around. Just after takeoff, the engine quit. The plane crashed into a tree, and Corrigan was killed. Last week, when his body was brought back to Luangprabang, more than 1,000 Laotians stood silently by. Buddhist monks said prayers over the coffin, and the governor laid a wreath, saying: "From his Laotian friends, their eternal regrets...