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...Laotian capitals--Luang Prabang and Vientiane-- will be neutralized, and the country will be divided into zones based on the military strength of the respective sides...
...When the Laotian peace agreement is signed, it will be the third time in the past two decades that the left-wing Pathet Lao and the Royal Laotian government have attempted to settle their differences at the conference table...
...both previous settlements evaporated when a combination of rightest Laotians and the United States government sought to undermine Laotian neutrality and shift the country into the Western camp...
...invasion," the U.S. was making the same mistake--perhaps intentionally--that it would later make in neighboring Cambodia. The Pathet Lao were not North Vietnamese in disguise, but native Laotians who had attempted since their movement was founded in 1950 to achieve a blend of revolution, independence and economic development for the benefit of the Laotian people...
...agreement will officially end the decade of continual guerrilla war and American bombing which have forced between one-third and one-half of the Laotian people to become refugees...