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...only small condition for attending the conference, had no ready counter. The pro-Western Laotian Premier, Prince Boun Oum, who has been sitting on the Riviera doing nothing in particular, was not much help. "The Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would go to Nice, he might take...
Souvanna Phouma, still recognized by the Communists as Premier and now tolerated by the U.S., is clearly returning to take over power. All factions, including the Pathet Lao's Red Prince Souphanouvong, will peacefully assemble in Luangprabang, this week for the long delayed cremation of King Savang Vatthana's father, who has been encased for 18 months in a sandalwood coffin. As the government-controlled Lao Presse hopefully put it: the cremated King, in his "final departure toward nirvana, might bring about the miracle for which the whole world waits...
...proposed 14-nation peace conference creates a government of "national union," they could work with the Communists without being swallowed up. And King Savang Vatthana thought he knew just how to start getting the warring factions on better terms: have them all up to the royal capital of Luangprabang late this month for the cremation of his father, old King Sisavang Vong, who has been preserved in formaldehyde since...
...citizens of Luangprabang, the most conspicuous face of the U.S. was that of a redheaded, freckled Irishman from Larkspur, Calif, named Francis P. Corrigan, 35. It was a face they liked. In four years as the U.S. Information Service's public affairs officer in Luangprabang, Corrigan acquired a working knowledge of the Lao language and a stomach that could take the glutinous rice and fiery red peppers he was served when traveling about the back country. He shot craps with the governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages...
...when Cor igan got ready to deliver movies to the small town of Hong Sa, the Tri-Pacer was the only plane around. Just after takeoff, the engine quit. The plane crashed into a tree, and Corrigan was killed. Last week, when his body was brought back to Luangprabang, more than 1,000 Laotians stood silently by. Buddhist monks said prayers over the coffin, and the governor laid a wreath, saying: "From his Laotian friends, their eternal regrets...