Word: patheticness
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...principal delay had not been Sihanouk's lunch but a wrangle over who would speak for Laos. In what may have been only the first of successive retreats, the U.S. caved in and agreed to seat not one but two pro-Communist del egations, one from the Pathet Lao guerrillas and the other from ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma (who stayed away, but sent his lissome, sari-clad daughter as a delegate). The pro-Western royal Laotian government, on hearing that it would be outnumbered, boycotted the conference-even though a British diplomat in Laos spent...
White House insiders reported that the Administration would "almost certainly" send U.S. troops to endangered Thailand in the near future, and that if the Geneva peace conference on Laos breaks down, as it well may, the Administration may intervene before the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas can take over the whole country. At the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Oslo, Secretary of State Dean Rusk reaffirmed the U.S.'s pledge that it will insist "with all means possible" upon continued access to West Berlin. In a speech to a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, President Kennedy said...
...nation* conference was supposed to get going, the man who proposed it, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, had not shown up (but agreed, after some pleading, to come later). As for the Laotians, the Communist side sent two delegations-one headed by a veteran guerrilla representing the Pathet Lao, the other by a onetime Vientiane bookseller who was standing in for self-styled "neutralist'' Prince Souvanna Phouma. The royal government delegation straggled in two days late...
...arranged in the usual haphazard way that Laotians get things done. The Royal Army insisted on meeting in no man's land near a village called Ban Vang Ky. As a point of pride, the Communist Pathet Lao demanded rather that the two sides meet at Ban Namone. Instead, a Royal Army lieutenant colonel and a Pathet Lao major ran into each other near a place called Ban Hin Heup and agreed to come back next day with some white flags and aides. They did, and agreed to a "theoretical and provisional" ceasefire, leaving the details imprecise. Nonetheless...
...gets under way, Geneva will not be a happy occasion for the West. There the Red Chinese will sit down as equals with the U.S., and the Peking radio is already laying down the line that the Communists will appear as victors to dictate the future of Laos. The Pathet Lao will be out to ratify its conquest of half of Laos by acquiring a major voice in a coalition government. Reportedly it wanted the ministries of Interior, Rural Affairs and Information-meaning control of police, peasants and propaganda. As candidate for Premier, Souvanna Phouma has all but lost...