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...Laos, Communist Pathet Lao troops had driven U.S.-endorsed neutralist forces off the strategic Plain of Jars and threatened to carry clear to the Thai border. In Cambodia, while Prince Sihanouk was howling about U.S. and South Vietnamese border violations, Communist Viet Cong guerrillas were enjoying sanctuary and transit rights to facilitate their war against the U.S.-backed government in Saigon. And in South Viet Nam, in the war into which the U.S. has poured both blood and billions, the struggle against the Reds was steadily deteriorating...
...progovernment head of the Buddhists' political bureau, Thich Tarn Chau, resigned, charging other monks with trying to stir up trouble. The resignation meant increasing influence for another leading monk, Thich Tri Quang, who enjoyed refuge last year in the U.S. embassy, but who is considered antigovernment and potentially neutralist...
...Catholic Vietnamese." But pinned down as to whether they suffered "persecution," Phillips replied: "I would say no." He added that "they carried on a very effective public relations program in getting their story before the American people," and noted that they had been supported by fellow Buddhists in neutralist Burma and Ceylon and in Red China...
...main dangers today, after two coups in six months, are that yet another upheaval might bring a neutralist government to power in Saigon, or that a series of coups could erode the people's will to resist. As General Giap has suggested, Communist strategy now envisages not one big Dienbienphu but a lot of small, frustrating engagements. Says Giap: "The enemy will pass slowly from the offensive to the defensive and be caught in a dilemma; he has to drag out the war in order to win it and does not possess, on the other hand, the psychological...
...Refusal. With Vientiane secured, the coup leaders confronted irate foreign diplomats, all of whom wanted nothing more than a return to the neutralist status quo, no matter how shaky. In from Saigon jetted William Bundy, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to join Ambassador Leonard Unger in protesting against the coup. Some people, notably neighboring Thailand's strongly anti-Communist government, were delighted by the prospect of a right-wing regime in Laos; but the U.S. argues that such a government simply could not maintain itself in power. The Reds, who were at least theoretically members...