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After 14 nations signed the Geneva accord establishing Laotian neutrality last month. Red Prince Souphanouvong promised to release the U.S. prisoners held by his Communist Pathet Lao. Last week five gaunt and bearded men stumbled off a twin-engined Soviet plane at Vientiane's Wattay airport. They had been imprisoned for 15 months or more - and looked...
Major Lawrence Bailey, 38, who had been assistant U.S. military attache in the Laotian capital before his capture in March 1961, was still weak from injuries suffered when he bailed out of a plane that crashed with seven other U.S. servicemen in a mountainous eastern province of Laos. Unable to walk without assistance, and barely able to talk, Bailey said that he had been locked alone in a "blackcell" for the past eleven months, was subjected to "continuous questioning." The only other U.S. serviceman released by the Pathet Lao was Sergeant Orville Ballenger, 28, a member of a U.S. Army...
Soliven asserted that the people of Laos have no common heritage and that the many tribes which make up "what is known as Laos" do not even realize that they belong to the same country. This has complicated the problem of trying to unite the Laotian people into a cogent fighting unit capable of resisting the advancing communists...
...western Royal Laotian army has tended to stay aloof, while the communist Pathet Lao has moved into the villages and lived among the people. The Pathet Lao did not have to invade Laos, they used a process of "complete encirclement through osmosis...
While in Geneva, the international conference on Laos tried to work out a formal agreement on Laotian neutrality, the new coalition Cabinet of neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma blandly announced that it planned to recognize practically all the divided countries under the sun: North and South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, Red China as well as Nationalist China. When stunned newsmen pointed out that the rules of diplomacy require that one or the other of the split nations, or neither, be recognized, acting Foreign Minister Pheng Phongsavan professed amazement. "If they accept the laws of Laos, there will...