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Time for Advancement. Rather than submit to the Anglo-U.S. demand that an immediate cease-fire order precede any peace conference. Moscow called for talks forthwith and said vaguely that the Laotian belligerents should hammer out their own ceasefire. This could conceivably give time for the Red-led Pathet Lao forces to advance as they did last week (see THE WORLD). The talks would include prompt convocation of the three-nation International Control Commission (Canada, India, Poland) in Delhi and the opening of a 14-nation conference-notably including Communist China-in Cambodia. The U.S. shuddered at the thought...
...Important Thing." Western powers were indeed discussing some further concessions to the Communists. They were prepared to chuck the pro-Western though ineffectual Laotian government of Premier Boun Oum, restore left-leaning "neutralist" ex-Premier Souvanna Phouma as the Russians demanded. Last week a touring Souvanna admitted grandly in Paris that "it was on my request that the Soviets have granted, during the past few months, aid to troops faithful to my government." In any event, Souvanna was the same man whom the U.S. could have had six months ago at a far lower cost...
Doubtless the Communist rebels would secure a substantial voice in the future Laotian government, might well be able to win over the country the slower but safer way-without firing a shot. The optimists in the State Department said that all the West really needs to hold is the Southern crest of Laos that buffers Thailand and South Viet Nam from Communism. Pessimists, and there were many, feared that the magnetism of Communism would soon pull over any "neutral" Laos...
Five hundred U.S. Marines unpacked their gear at Udon in northeastern Thailand, just 45 miles southwest of Vientiane across the Mekong River. They were equipped with 16 helicopters, ready to help fly men and supplies to the fighting front when and if they were ordered into action. In the Laotian capital of Vientiane, the only four helicopters on duty were pocked with bullet holes, and their U.S. civilian pilots, flying under contract to the Laotian government, were badly overworked. Said one, who had spent weeks darting through thunderstorms and skirting mountain peaks and groundfire from the Communist Pathet...
...American today is told without pause that the world is up to him?war or peace, prosperity or famine, the welfare or literacy of the last, remotest Congolese, Tibetan or Laotian. And he is facing his demanding destiny in a state of psychological and religious confusion...