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...show in return. Laos' Communist, neutralist and pro-Western factions, loosely stitched into a coalition government as a result of the Geneva agreement, are still at one another's throats. Communist troops from Viet Nam still prowl the country, in violation of the Geneva pact. Communist Pathet Lao troops still pillage and kill...
...Plaine des Jarres, headquarters of both the neutralist and Communist Pathet Lao armies, the Reds have begun a campaign to infiltrate and subvert the forces of their onetime neutralist allies. Farther north, thousands of Red Chinese workers have crossed into Laos to build roads linking China's Yunnan province with Communist-held areas of Laos itself. Armed with new Red Chinese automatic weapons, the Pathet Lao is attacking neutralist villages on the supply lines between the Plaine des Jarres and Communist North Viet Nam to the east. Many neutralists have openly defected to the Reds, adding to Westerners...
...While showing a movie at his house on the Plaine des Jarres. the neutralist army's second in command, Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, was shot in the back. At Ketsana's funeral last week, Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le, who once worked hand in glove with the Pathet Lao, made no effort to conceal his disenchantment with his former cohorts. "This odious crime," said Kong Le, "was the work of those who are under a foreign influence." Kong Le restricted his troops to their base, ordered the Pathet Lao to keep out of neutralist encampments...
...neutralist officers wondered where the Reds would strike next. One recalled that a ranking Pathet Lao officer told him last fall that the Communists had plans for Kong Le's top four subordinates: "We are going to thoroughly liquidate all four of you." With Ketsana's death, there was one down and three...
...considered violently anti-American until last year when he reportedly began reversing his ideas; by assassination (he was shot in the back while relieving himself behind his home); in Phongsavan at Plaine des Jarres. The murder, widely believed to be the work of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, happened only 36 hours after Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma left on a world tour...