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Political parties: 3. Voters: 42%. Government still based on tribalism. President Sylvanus Olympic avowedly neutralist but warm friend of West, faces resistance from Ghana-backed northern tribes...
...explicit, so what more could be done? Disarmament-a meeting of 16 top-level officials around the rocking chair about whether to modify U.S. proposals for an H-test ban (see THE WORLD). Then the President rushed off to receive a visitor about whom he was openly curious: Laos Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, the man whose inertia in the face of the Communists has been the despair of U.S. policy planning for two years. The President found the placid Prince looking far younger than his 60 years, and, if no minds were changed on either side, the U.S. did announce...
...seat legislature, reduced the party's seats from 104 to 96. The Free Democrats, who had hopes of boosting their influence, instead lost a seat for a new total of 14. The only gainers were the ideologically refurbished Socialists, who have attracted increasing support since they dropped Marxist neutralist slogans in favor of bourgeois appeals for prosperity, moderate reform and NATO. The S.P.D. last week boosted its percentage of the total vote from 39% to more than 43% (the first time since the war that it has topped the 40% mark), gained nine new places in the legislature...
While in Geneva, the international conference on Laos tried to work out a formal agreement on Laotian neutrality, the new coalition Cabinet of neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma blandly announced that it planned to recognize practically all the divided countries under the sun: North and South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, Red China as well as Nationalist China. When stunned newsmen pointed out that the rules of diplomacy require that one or the other of the split nations, or neither, be recognized, acting Foreign Minister Pheng Phongsavan professed amazement. "If they accept the laws of Laos, there will...
Married. Princess Moune Souvanna Phouma, 26, slim daughter of the neutralist among Laos' three princely premiers; and Count Hubert de Germiny, 24, French student of diplomacy; in Paris...