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...half-brother of Communist Boss Prince Souphanouvong, and many of the handful of educated Laotians who make up the government insisted that the whole thing was just a family affair. Last week the family affair was settled. Sarong-clad Laotians from villages and the deep bush along the Mekong streamed into the capital of Vientiane. They had cheers for Souvanna Phouma, cheers for Souphanouvong, and smiles for everyone...
...sold at still higher profits. Sometimes the radios really reach Laos (marked with the universally recognized symbol of clasped hands in front of a U.S. flag). But before Laos' primitive customs guards can catch up and impose an import tax, the radios are smuggled back across the Mekong River and shipped into Bangkok for sale at handsome profits. Laotian officials, either out of confusion or collusion, have granted orders for some items that seem of questionable utility in a country that is still largely jungle. Recently, licenses were granted for 25 television receivers, though Laos has no TV station...
...nearly a year a lackadaisical honor guard of green-clad Communist sentries lounged around a moldering villa on the banks of the Mekong River in the lotusland Laotian capital of Vientiane. In their spare time, which was ample, the guards planted turnips and lettuce in a tiny garden...
...royal bed, and Chou blanketed the country with Communist propaganda. Cambodian newspapers began charging the U.S. with setting up military bases in the country. The local Chinese colony, seeing the royal favor conferred on Chou, began shifting its allegiance to Peking. Communist agents delivered money and mortars to Mekong River pirates raiding the borders of neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam. But perhaps Sihanouk's biggest mistake was to permit, in his onetime 100% Sihanouk Parliament, an opposition of so-called "progressives...
Last week French businessmen who had come hopefully to Cambodia after the debacle of Hanoi were leaving. In the Mekong River valley 6,000 peasants, terrified by pirates, put their cooking pots on their backs and, driving their water buffaloes before them, moved toward South Viet Nam. For Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the unkindest cut of all was the charge of "corruption in government" by the progressive opposition, and the cry for a Cambodian Republic. Said Sihanouk, with an accent of surprise: "The opposition is planning to discredit the indispensable monarchy. Because of my foolish dreams, things are going the wrong...