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...President spoke determinedly of a U.S. "response" if the Russians failed to halt their aggression-by-proxy in Laos. Declared he: "No one should doubt our resolution." But Nikita Khrushchev obviously did. He stalled off Kennedy's proposed cease-fire for five weeks, stepped un the Communist Pathet Lao's guerrilla offensive. By the time Khrushchev finally agreed to a cease-fire last week, the Communist troops controlled about half of Laos. Even after the British-Russian announcement of a cease-fire agreement, the rebels stayed on the offensive. When and if the Communists go to the Laos...
...Royal Laotian Army, a ceasefire could come none too soon. "They've been observing the cease-fire for some time now, anyway," said one U.S. observer dourly. Though all Laotians are reluctant to fight, Royal Laotian soldiers seem even more reluctant than the Communist Pathet Lao. Stiffened by Communist regulars from North Viet Nam, Pathet Lao bands have spread over the land while the talking went on, until fully half of Laos is under their control. The Pathet Lao advance, said a Western diplomat, is not "a push, drive, Panzer or pincer movement-just a leisurely walk through...
Souvanna Phouma, still recognized by the Communists as Premier and now tolerated by the U.S., is clearly returning to take over power. All factions, including the Pathet Lao's Red Prince Souphanouvong, will peacefully assemble in Luangprabang, this week for the long delayed cremation of King Savang Vatthana's father, who has been encased for 18 months in a sandalwood coffin. As the government-controlled Lao Presse hopefully put it: the cremated King, in his "final departure toward nirvana, might bring about the miracle for which the whole world waits...
...letter to President Kennedy on Cuba indicates, the spectre of Cuba is now hovering over all Cold War diplomatic exchanges, and everyone realizes that the United States cannot reserve the right to intervene in Cuba and at the same time take any strong exception to Soviet aid to the Pathet Lao. It is hardly possible, as Khruschev's Cuban note said, to handle matters in such a way as to extinguish a conflagration in one area only to kindle fires in another. Cuba and Laos are parallel enough to reveal why it is in Khruschev's interest to move patiently...
...Pathet Lao, showing an un-Marxist feeling for tradition, have already been angling for an invitation. The occasion is doubly auspicious, since it will be the beginning of the Laotian New Year. And the seven days of feasting and drinking, thinks the King, should put anybody in a friendlier mood...