Word: luangprabang
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Last week brought a harsh and sudden intensification of events. In Laos, the Pathet Lao guerrillas advanced toward Luangprabang, the royal capital. In the United Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko truculently renewed the Communist offensive against Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. In Geneva, when U.S., British and Russian delegates to the nuclear-test-ban conference met again after a 3½-month recess, the Soviet delegate started off with a belligerence that appeared to rip apart the fragile little structure of agreement slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word...
...troops would probably not be the first to go into action in Laos. Instead, U.S.-manned helicopters and transports would drop guerrilla forces of Thais, Pakistanis and Filipinos into the fighting sectors while U.S. troops occupied the Mekong River valley towns from Savannakhet through Paksane and Vientiane, up to Luangprabang; this would provide strong defense for the towns while freeing 12,000 Laotian soldiers for action. Meanwhile. U.S. guerrillas would move in and beef up training of the native groups...
...theory that "as long as the Buddha is in our hands, the country is safe." He has preserved the body of his late father in formaldehyde for the past 17 months in a gilded sandalwood urn at the entrance to the palace in the royal capital of Luangprabang, on the ground that the powerful phis (spirits) that surround the corpse of a king will ward off all invaders...
Some $1,600,000 and a year's work were spent on a road linking Luangprabang and Vientiane, which proved to be under water half the year. It got paved for only eight miles out of Vientiane-to the tennis court of a former Defense Minister. There was, said an investigator for the International Cooperation Administration, "an almost fairy-tale implausibility" about the transactions. Stately homes and Mercedes cars blossomed along the dusty streets of Vientiane...
...Western King Savang Vatthana is still widely loved by his countrymen for the same phlegmatic qualities that make him the despair of foreign diplomats. Last week, on the inscrutable advice of his bonzes, the saffron-clad Buddhist priests who abound in Luangprabang, Savang Vatthana decided that, whatever Westerners may think, the signs were propitious for Laos. He announced that at long last he would cremate his father...