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Since the Geneva accords of 1962 established its tripartite "neutrality," the landlocked, Lilliputian kingdom of Laos has teetered continually on the cliff-edge of chaos. Torn between the demands of the rightist Royal Laotian Army and the intransigent Communist Pathet Lao, which controls nearly half of the country, Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma maintains a facade of government simply because he is the only Premier acceptable to both the West and the Communist powers. Last week, when Laotians went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly in the first countrywide elections since 1960, foreign observers from a dozen capitals...
Still, loyalties are never long-lived in Laos, and Souvanna's fragile web of alliances-of groups loyal to the top ten ruling families, to the military and to other regional powers besides himself-could easily rip. Fiery Neutralist General Kong Le, who fled Laos after a dustup over dragons' eggs (TIME, Oct. 21), was in Indonesia and uneasily noncommittal. Army Commander Kouprasith, who has his own ambitions for Laos, was enigmatically silent. A lot would depend on how Souvanna Phouma and the new Assembly get along together after it convenes in early February...
...medical school in Bombay. But later she sighed: "It would be almost impossible to get back to my studies-too many interviews and disturbances." So she agreed to go along with Bob Hope's Christmas troupe to Viet Nam, and that caused quite a disturbance in her neutralist homeland. Before long, even the Indian Foreign Office was pressuring her to cancel out so as not to lend her country's name to the U.S. war effort. After brooding on the matter, Reita announced: "If the show were going to Viet Nam, the Viet Cong or even the moon...
Although Seraphina is about to be boiled in molten wax in this week's com ic strip, any faithful reader of Jeune Afrique (Young Africa) can be confident that she will escape and vanquish her enemies to the applause of all the neutralist nations of the "third world...
Seraphina is one of the most popular features of a weekly French-language newsmagazine devoted to the problems of the third world, primarily in Africa. Reaching 85,000 readers around the world, Jeune Afrique has made itself must reading for the neutralist nations' elite...