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...dead of night last week, 60 Laotians stealthily cast off from the Thailand shore of the Mekong River in motor-powered pirogues. They were led by General Thao Ma, 42, onetime commander of the Royal Lao Air Force, who has lived in Thai exile since his 1966 abortive attempt to overthrow the Laotian government. After disembarking at the outskirts of Vientiane, the rebels rendezvoused with about 60 more sympathizers. A coup against Laos' neutralist leader, Prince Souvanna Phouma, had begun...
...signed with the Pathet Lao (TIME, Aug. 13). Conservatives grumbled that the prince was giving the Communists too many key posts in the proposed coalition government and allowing them to maintain too many soldiers in Vientiane and in Luangprabang, the royal capital. To seasoned observers of Laotian politics, who recall the spate of right-wing tries at coups in the early 1960s, the only uncertainty was how many of Souvanna's generals would desert him. As it turned out last week, none...
...representatives of his half brother Prince Souphanouvong, who leads the Hanoi-backed Pathet Lao forces, appear ready to try yet another coalition government, as they have done unsuccessfully twice before in the past 19 years. Diplomats in Vientiane report that the Pathet Lao, whose army controls 80% of Laotian territory and about one-third of its population, won most of the concessions in the draft agreement. Although Souvanna will head the new government as Premier, his half brother will become the undisputed No. 2 man as First Deputy Premier. Both the Pathet Lao and Souvanna's representatives will...
...Laotian agreement is formally signed later this month, as expected, the U.S. will have 60 days to withdraw its hundreds of military "advisers" and CIA agents, who have directed and paid both Lao and Thai mercenaries in their unsuccessful efforts to stem the Pathet Lao advances. The agreement, however, does not specifically mention the estimated 49,000 North Vietnamese troops currently in Laos...
...United States subverted a previous settlement of the Laotian struggle ten years ago, inaugurating a period of renewed warfare that witnessed Pathet Lao advances despite continuous American aerial bombardment...