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What ever became of the chaos in Laos? Last year at this time the pro-Communist Pathet Lao were strutting lumpily across the Plain of Jars in their dun-colored uniforms, proudly triumphant over the "neutralist" forces of General Kong Le and threatening to overrun the entire country. To be sure, the Pathet Lao are still there-and stronger than ever. According to U.S. officials, the Laotian Reds have been bolstered by 10,000 North Vietnamese troops. But with the monsoon already hampering military operations, they have failed for the first time since 1960 to mount a spring offensive...
Votes & the Red Prince. If things are going well militarily in Laos, they are as hazy as ever politically. Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma must deal with a country half occupied by Communists, half hung up on the political bickering of the antiCommunists. Souvanna has survived three major attempts to overthrow his government in the past four months, and rightist bands loyal to exiled Deputy Premier Phoumi Nosavan-in Thailand since February's coup attempt-still prowl the countryside between Paksane and Thakhek...
...Chinese, but its main purpose remains: to discredit the free world, through ideological friends and dupes as well as through agents. It enlists a network of ostensibly independent papers, stoops to clumsy but temporarily harassing forgeries usually purported to be U.S. documents showing American diplomats engaged in subversion of neutralist governments. It can spark ventures like the protest movement against the execution in 1953 of the convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were able to claim in one of their last petitions that "never have more people, in all lands and all walks of life, been so shaken...
...into the Common Market. Britain, which saw EFTA as a second-best alignment until it could ally with the Common Market, has twice the wealth, trade and population of the other six combined. Those far-flung nations range from socialist Norway, Sweden and Denmark through dictatorial Portugal to neutralist Austria and Switzerland. Unlike the Common Market nations, they have no hopes for ultimate political union, no plans to reduce farm tariffs, no intention of establishing a common external tariff...
...meeting this week in Nigeria. But at home Niemöller is more and more regarded with the same kind of pained dismay that Anglican clerics reserved for the late "Red Dean" of Canterbury-and for a not wholly dissimilar reason. He is now a militant but myopic neutralist, whose angry blasts against "warmongering" always seem to be addressed to the West and never to the Communist world...