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...nation Geneva conference was an effective ceasefire. But with Ban Hat Bo, the U.S. seemed to have abandoned even that feeble condition, offering the somewhat lame excuse that otherwise "the pace of events might pass us by." U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman charged that two companies of Viet Minh troops had participated in the earlier attack on Padong, and again asked Russia's Andrei Gromyko to approve a Canadian plan to dispatch helicopters and light planes to the International Control Commission so that it could carry out its assignment of policing the ceasefire. In the absence of instruction and equipment...
Will to Fight. The two countries present vastly different problems. In South Viet Nam, a pro-Communist Laos will mean an increasing flow of guerrillas and supplies transiting Laos over the old Ho Chi Minh trail from Communist North Viet Nam. Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned in a press conference last week that the guerrilla force in South Viet Nam has grown in seven years from 3,000 to 12,000 men, even as a North Vietnamese spokesman proclaimed that "the people's revolutionary struggle [in the South] has entered a new stage...
...time he reached Communist North Viet Nam and got another welcome from President Ho Chi Minh, Souvanna was grandly ordering the Vientiane "rebels" (meaning the present Laotian government) to send a delegation to his "capital" of Xiengkhouang, in central Laos, to discuss the cease-fire and the "broadening of the government...
Educated as a civil engineer in Saigon, Thao fought nine years with the Communist Viet Minh against the French. But he quit the Viet Minh shortly after the Geneva peace conference in 1954, partly because he is a Roman Catholic (his brother is still a Communist and currently North Viet Nam's Ambassador to East Germany). And when his former comrades-in-arms started terrorizing South Vietnamese villages, Thao joined the army against them...
...Western position in Laos tottered strategists began to look to the next line of defense. They did not have far to look. Down Laos' spiny eastern border runs what is called the Ho Chi Minh trail, which North Viet Nam's ex-guerrilla President used in his fight against the French. Last week there was almost as much activity along the trail as there was in Laos, as the Communists pushed supplies and reinforcements to the jungle fighters who are battling to take over South Viet Nam-a far richer prize than Laos...