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Flagging Spirits. Euphemism and secrecy are required in the special war in Laos because Laos itself is a special situation. Neutralized by the Geneva Accords of 1962, to which Russia and the U.S. agreed, Laos is a tripartite nation-part royalist, part neutralist, part Communist-that by treaty is off limits to all foreign troops. But when the North Vietnamese moved in, the U.S., at the request of Prince Souvanna Phouma, provided aid and advisers in civilian clothes to the royalist-neutralist coalition fighting the Pathet Lao. American planes now daily airlift food and arms into remote areas of Laos...
After five years of sporadic skirmishing, the royalist and neutralist armies have lately begun to gather momentum in their internal struggle with the Pathet Lao, who control some 35% of the country. Pathet Lao strength has dropped from 35,000 to 30,000 in the past year. During the same period, some 3,000 defectors and refugees have fled Communist rule, bringing accounts of food shortages, forced labor, and falling Pathet Lao morale. Increasingly, the Royal Laotian Army finds its field enemy to be North Vietnamese regulars rather than the Pathet...
...junta took the first step toward a return to parliamentary rule by creating a 20-man commission of jurists and professors to revise the new constitution. It formally charged the military's archenemy, Andreas Papandreou, 48, with conspiracy to commit high treason as the leader of the neutralist Aspida plot. As it ordered his trial, probably within the next few months, the junta gave assurance that it would not demand the death penalty. The new government also released from confinement Andreas' 79-year-old father, former Premier George Papandreou, and promised soon to set free at least half...
...credibility of China as a military threat before whom her neighbors must cringe. In fact, while China has been thrashing in economic disorder, her neighbors have by and large prospered and plucked up their courage, partly-as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew admitted publicly last week and other neutralist nations cautiously indicate in private-because of the U.S.'s determined stand in South Viet...
...Rust. Despite these shifts in direction, Burma still remains one of the most determinedly socialist and neutralist nations in Southeast Asia. Ne Win has nationalized more than 90% of Burma's industry and created a socialist bureaucracy that would give even Moscow the shivers. The distribution system, handled by military men with no economic experience, distributes almost nothing. While warehouses bulge with goods that often rot or rust away, store managers are faced with too many customers and too little merchandise. They stage lotteries, giving successive winners the privilege of buying whatever is left on the shelves, which...