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...mildewed villa in Laos' capital city of Vientiane sits a bland, tired-eyed Premier named Prince Souvanna Phouma. He says his neutralist government wants to make peace with everybody, including the Communists. He has the support of two crack paratroop battalions, one of them under command of Captain Kong Le, whose coup last August brought Souvanna Phouma to power...
President de Gaulle does not favor generals in politics, except himself. After the May 13 uprising, he had first promoted but then fired firebrand Paratroop General Jacques Massu. He also kept a wary eye on General Salan, first shunting him off to the largely honorific post of military governor of Paris, then retiring him to the reserve. Salan elected to buy a house in Algiers and plan a new future...
Along with other habits picked up from their former French masters, the men who rule Laps seem to like to make frequent and complex changes of government. Last week, nearly a month after Paratroop Captain Kong Le forcibly overthrew a pro-Western Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.), Laos once again had a new government-one so complex that even its members were not sure what its policies were...
...floods are seasonal, the political troubles getting to be. Fortnight ago a brash young paratroop captain named Kong Le captured Vientiane in a predawn raid with a battalion of troops who were angry at not getting paid for several months (TIME, Aug. 22). Kong Le's coup toppled a pro-Western Cabinet, and to form a new government the captain turned to neutralist, three-time Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, 58. Prince Souvanna put together a Cabinet that included the chief of Laos' primitive Meo tribesmen as Minister of Information. But last week he met a cold shoulder from...
...must be buried in a coffin made from a sandalwood tree that had been growing for centuries for this predestined purpose. This tree had just been found, and Sisavang Vong could at last be laid to rest. But even as Somsanith and his ministers were making funeral arrangements, a paratroop captain back in Vientiane was preparing a different sort of funeral for the Cabinet itself. Voice of America. A moody soldier trained in a U.S. Ranger course in the Philippines, Captain Kongle, 26, was under orders to take his battalion 40 miles north to hunt down pro-Communist Pathet...