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Down in the south is the country's top soldier, General Phoumi Nosavan, 40, who does not like Communists and says that the prince in Vientiane cannot tell a Red from a banyan tree. Several leaders of Laos' 28,000-man army - armed, trained and paid by U.S. aid-support Phoumi's right-wing rebellion. Also working for the general is the fact that he has had help from Marshal Sarit, strongman of the neighboring kingdom of Thailand, whom he calls uncle (actually, he is a first cousin once removed). Vientiane gets all its fuel and most...
...threatened civil war between Kong Le and those who opposed his coup. King Savang Vatthana accepted as his Premier Kong Le's candidate for the job: Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. As his part of the bargain, Prince Souvanna turned around and named as his Interior Minister General Phoumi Nosavan, leader of the anti-Kong Le faction. Everybody seemed relatively happy with the arrangement, at least for the moment...
Ranged against Kong Le and Prince Souvanna was ex-Defense Minister Gen eral Phoumi Nosavan, 40, whose hastily organized "Committee Against the Coup d'Etat" still holds the royal seat of Luang-prabang and is apparently keeping the King under something close to house arrest. Last week, after a quick trip to Thailand, whose strongly anti-Communist government loudly distrusts Kong Le & Co., General Phoumi turned up in the southern Laotian town of Savannakhet with a brand-new radio transmitter and a vow to chase Kong Le out of the capital...
Though the new Premier was the personal choice of Laos' military strongman, General Phoumi Nosavan, he owed his job primarily to Red Prince Souphanouvong, the mustachioed Pathet Lao leader who jumped jail near Vientiane a fortnight ago and rejoined his comrades in the jungle. Facing the probable flareup of guerrilla activity, Laos' heavy-lidded politicians decided that desperate situations require desperate measures, even electing the best...
While troops stood guard through the capital city of Vientiane and three armored cars stood outside the royal palace, the military junta drove to a meeting in five sleek, black Mercedes and designated General Phoumi Nosavan, 39, Inspector of Armed Forces, as the military strongman of Laos. A government official, urging newsmen to remember that Laos was a Buddhist and basically peaceful country, said: "Please don't dramatize the situation. It's a coup d'etat Laotian style, and not on the South American level. It's all en famille. No bloodshed...