Word: pholsena
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...most important and the most left-wing of these neutralists is Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena, a bookseller and politician who nurses a grudge against the U.S.. both for the previous machinations of the CIA and for alleged slights at the hands of U.S. diplomats. Quinim has the potential of developing into a Laotian Krishna Menon. but last week he was acting his affable best, assuring newsmen that the new Laos was happy to accept aid "without conditions" from East and West. Washington was swift to make its contribution: the payment of $3,000,000 a month to the Laos...
General Phoumi had agreed to be Finance Minister and Red Prince Souphanouvong to take the Economy and Planning port folio, but Phoumi flatly vetoed Souvan-na's candidate for Foreign Minister, a talkative, leftist bookseller named Quinini Pholsena. At week's end, as the three princes and the general separated, the only solid-seeming agreement was to resume meetings this week...