Word: patheticness
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...peace." Khrushchev seemed a bit more cooperative about Laos. In the joint communique issued after the talks, Kennedy and Khrushchev agreed on the need for an "effective ceasefire." But last week it was apparent that Khrushchev would implement those words in his own good time. When the pro-Communist Pathet Lao violated the cease-fire by seizing Padong village, Western diplomats at the Geneva conference-who had been vainly waiting for some word from Moscow-boycotted the talks in protest...
...which had made the cease-fire its only small condition for attending the conference, had no ready counter. The pro-Western Laotian Premier, Prince Boun Oum, who has been sitting on the Riviera doing nothing in particular, was not much help. "The Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would...
...planes on their wingtips to swoop down and drop supplies to a garrison of Meo tribesmen under daily attack in the mountain village of Padong, only 20 miles from the Communist "capital" of Xiengkhouang. In one five-day period, 40 Russian planes delivered 80 tons of supplies to the Pathet...
...Chairman Samar Sen, an Indian civil servant: "In the jungle, it is nearly impossible to say who shot first or who gave the first provocation." Obviously, unsympathetic to what he called "the Boun Oum group," Sen said he had no "detailed evidence" to back up repeated government charges of Pathet Lao raids-and he showed no desire to go into the jungle...
...quarters in Vientiane. Some of the Indian commissioners refused to bathe in anything but soda water, presumably on the ground that Laotian water was full of parasites. Headed from 1955-57, as now, by Samarendranath Sen, an urbane Indian career civil servant, the commission rarely investigated government charges of Pathet Lao raids because of Sen's fear that this would only "antagonize" both sides. When the Laotians, in 1957, briefly got together in a coalition Cabinet, they soon asked the I.C.C...