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...uprising. The battle in Saigon had killed 400 of the country's finest fighting men, and Communist guerrillas took advantage of South Viet Nam's lowered guard to tighten their hold on the country's southern delta, plus large tracts along the Cambodian and Laotian borders. In whispers, Diem's disgruntled subjects predicted that another revolt was only a matter of time...
...from the Pathet Lao to clear the Communist check points on all roads leading out of town. Late last week Prince Souvanna flew deep into Pathet Lao country to meet his brother, there agreed to establish "good neighbor" relations with North Viet Nam and Communist China and to take Laotian Communist leaders into a coalition Cabinet. Even granting the Laotian agility at compromise, it was hard to see how a shattering civil war between pro- and anti-Communists in Laos could be avoided much longer...
...priests were to tie a lucky string around Abramov's wrist. And Souvanna announced the "technical arrest" of Paratroop Captain Kong Le, Vientiane's military boss, on the ground that the expansive reception he staged for Abramov had been unauthorized. Souvanna did not go to the un-Laotian extreme of actually putting Kong Le in custody, but he explained that the arrest would go down as a "black mark" on the captain's record...
...Communists. Last week, in the somewhat more promising atmosphere, the U.S. announced that the payroll would be met. Prince Souvanna responded by publishing a National Assembly resolution declaring that "within the country, Laos rejects and combats Communism as incompatible with its religion, traditions and the basic feelings of the Laotian people...
...Patriotism. The U.S. has spent more than $300 million trying to shore up Laos and to make it a bastion of antiCommunist strength. In few areas of the world has the U.S. spent so much for so little. Laotians happily joined the army, now 28,000 strong, but it soon became clear that the attraction was not patriotism but the pay, which amounts to roughly triple the amount an average Laotian makes farming or growing opium, the country's only cash crop. Economic aid largely disappeared in graft among Vientiane's ruling politicians, mostly related to one another...