Word: pheng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country is not riven by irreconcilable rivalry between northerners and southerners, between Catholics, Buddhists and Communists or even-in a country with the acreage of Britain and the population of Brooklyn-between the landed and the landless. "If we could speak as one Laotian to another," Interior Minister Pheng Phongsavan told TIME's Peter Simms in Vientiane last week, "we could solve our problems without any great difficulty." That has not been possible, Phongsavan complains, because "the Pathet Lao are always looking over their shoulders to get their instructions from Hanoi...