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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...
...original 17 officers who helped Kong Le carry out his 1960 coup d'état, a man considered violently anti-American until last year when he reportedly began reversing his ideas; by assassination (he was shot in the back while relieving himself behind his home); in Phongsavan at Plaine des Jarres. The murder, widely believed to be the work of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, happened only 36 hours after Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma left on a world tour...
...divided countries under the sun: North and South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, Red China as well as Nationalist China. When stunned newsmen pointed out that the rules of diplomacy require that one or the other of the split nations, or neither, be recognized, acting Foreign Minister Pheng Phongsavan professed amazement. "If they accept the laws of Laos, there will be no trouble," he declared, and added that, happily, the rival missions need not even see each other, since one could go "to Luangprabang and the other to Vientiane...
...mortars. In the hills around the plain are new Russian 85-mm. cannon manned by Viet Minh "technicians." The Viet Minh are everywhere. They drive trucks, operate radios, build roads, teach tactics, run a 300-bed hospital in an assembly of tents and shacks. In the village of Phongsavan, a Viet Minh "people's store"dispenses cigarettes, food and a sweet North Vietnamese liquor called moka...
...TIME correspondent picked it up (TIME, June 2). But the story was wrong. The president was not Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Red-lining Patriotic Front, which last month gained control of 21 of the Assembly's 59 seats. It was instead 47-year-old Pheng Phongsavan, who has been president since 1956 and was re-elected to his third one-year term. If the names sounded a little alike, there was a world of difference in their politics...
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