Word: patheticness
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When the Laotian peace agreement is signed, it will be the third time in the past two decades that the left-wing Pathet Lao and the Royal Laotian government have attempted to settle their differences at the conference table...
...days of air strikes, performed at the request of the Royal Laotion government, were aimed at North Vietnames and Pathet Lao forces on the Plain of Jars, an area that has been bombed so much observers say it looks like the craters of the moon...
...keep its JMC soldiers on hand in case the four-party commission agreed to continue functioning past the March 28 deadline. As for the P.O.W.s held in Laos, the North insisted they had not been part of the written agreement and were in any case the responsibility of the Pathet...
...Laos lost much of its urgency. Despite ringing rhetoric by all U.S. Presidents since Dwight Eisenhower about the pivotal role of Laos in Southeast Asia, the U.S. last week urged Premier Souvanna to agree to a ceasefire. In desperation he accepted a settlement that gives the Communist Pathet Lao just about everything it has asked for ending the shooting. The Communists will be allowed to retain the land they now control, which is about two-thirds of the country (but includes only one-third of the population). The other third of the land will be governed by a new regime...
...final settlement was negotiated by Souvanna, now 72, after more than 19 weeks of talks with the Pathet Lao; rival Prince Souphanouvong sent only an intermediary to bargain with his brother. Whether Souvanna Phouma will now retain his top position in the new government is not certain, although the concessions he made to the Communists could have been motivated by his desire to do so. Complained one top administrator: "Souvanna capitulated on every point except one-that he should be Prime Minister-and he didn't even get that in writing...