Word: patheticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brotherly Host. Souvanna's host was his own half brother, Red Prince Souphanouvong, who leads the Pathet...
...replied Souvanna. At night they dined under a bower of silk parachutes, along with Captain Kong Le, the moody leftist who set off the civil war last August by mutinying with his battalion of paratroopers. Souvanna hailed the "fusion" of Kong Le's soldiers and the Pathet Lao. But in private, the Communists admitted that they were as puzzled as has been many a Western diplomat by Souvanna's fuzzy political ideas. "A very complicated man," said a Soviet journalist. "He says one thing one day and something entirely different the next...
Bogged Down. The King's speech had been written after close consultation with the U.S. embassy. To back it up, the State Department let it be known that if the Russians called off their open assistance to the Pathet Lao rebels in the north, the U.S. would even be willing to pull out its 162-man team of soldiers in civilian clothes presently attached to the Royal Laotian Army, and to channel future aid through the neutral commission...
...airstrip on the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres in north-central Laos. Tearfully, Prince Souvanna embraced Captain Kong Le, the rebels' chief fighting man, and Prince Souphanouvong, who happens to be Prince Souvanna's own half brother as well as the political leader of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. Souvanna forthwith dismissed the King's plan as "facetious and devoid of any practical value." Souphanouvong called it "a deceitful, reactionary" plot of "U.S. imperialists...
...negotiated truce. Late last week King Savang Vatthana, an easygoing monarch who prefers to remain above politics, reluctantly left his palm-fringed home town of Luangprabang, flew to Vientiane to convene his council of ministers. Purpose: to see if he could devise some sort of coalition government that the Pathet Lao rebels, and their Communist allies abroad, would be willing to strike a deal with...