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...Laos drifted into independence after World War II, under the custody of a fractious royal family. The two chief rivals: Prince Souvanna Phouma, who became Premier, and his half brother, Prince Souphanouvong, who became a follower of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and headed the guerrilla Pathet Lao. Fighting between their forces continued fitfully for years, and the war in neighboring Viet Nam turned dreamy little Laos into a strategic battleground, a Communist sanctuary and supply route between North and South...
...like this first month since the treaty was signed in Paris, the Vietnamese might well be in need of an armistice to end the "peace." Canadian truce supervisors complain that the fighting in South Vietnam is still too intense to permit careful "truce" supervision. Fighting continues in Laos, although Pathet Lao and government officials established a formal cease-fire on February 22. In Cambodia, American B52's have continued to bomb in support of that country's military dictatorship. And at the 13-nation peace conference in Paris, haggling over Saigon's refusal to release civilian political prisoners, over satisfactory...
Before the ink was dry on last Wednesday's Laos agreement, B52s were flying over the Boloven Plateau in southern Laos, allegedly to stop Pathet Lao ceasefire violations. There can be no justification for renewed U.S. bombing in Laos...
...reportedly has urged the government of Premier Souvanna Phouma not to accede to any new demands from the Communist Pathet Lao and to seek a cease-fire based on the same principles as the Paris peace settlement for Viet...
...Kissinger flew into Vientiane, Laos, cease-fire negotiations between Premier Souvanna Phouma and the Communist-dominated Pathet Lao were already well advanced. The chief difficulty has been the Communist insistence that any military truce be coupled with political concessions. A similar position had hampered the set tlement in Viet Nam until Hanoi finally agreed to separate those issues. If a similar deal can be struck in Laos - and Kissinger was pressing for it - a ceasefire could come as early as this week. In anticipation of that, the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops made last-minute pushes to grab more...