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...LAOS, the decay of the U.S. position has gone ever further. From the beginning, Washington hoped somehow to avoid having to accept Prince Souvanna Phouma as Premier of Laos. Last week the hope went glimmering. In a candy-striped tent on the Lik River, at meetings punctuated by toasts in champagne and burgundy, "Neutralist" Souvanna was selected Premier by two fellow princes, his Communist half brother Souphanouvong and the dispirited pro-Westerner, Boun Oum. Worse, it seems evident that U.S.-supported General Phoumi Nosavan will be fobbed off with a minor cabinet post-or with none at all. His Royal...
Iron-Curtain Twelve. The immediate conference issue seemed small: where should the three princes-pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum, Red Prince Souphanouvong, and "neutralist"' Prince Souvanna Phouma-meet to form a new government? Boun Oum's man had held out for the royal capital of Luangprabang, but now agreed that the meeting should take place at the village of Hin Heup on the Lik River, where one bank is held by the Royal Laotian Army and the other by the Communist Pathet...
...meeting, scheduled to start this week, the three princes are to select a 16-man Cabinet, which will almost certainly be headed by Souvanna Phouma as Premier. Four of the Cabinet seats will go to Boun Oum's supporters, four to the Reds, and eight to Souvanna Phouma's neutrals, who in most cases are not distinguishable from the Communists. Said a European diplomat: ''How can you expect the Western powers to accept a government with four from our side and twelve from behind the Iron Curtain...
...weather eye on the rain in Laos, where the monsoon-and perhaps an uneasy truce-will end later this month. From the stalled peace talks in Geneva, roving Ambassador Averell Harriman flew to Southeast Asia in an all-but-hopeless effort to establish accord with Sovietsupported Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos' prospective Premier...
...Marshal Chen Yi contemptuously: "I cannot understand why the United States is trying to win at a conference what it has already lost on the battlefield." With the talks thoroughly deadlocked, U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman invited the pro-Western Minister of Defense, General Phoumi Nesavan. and "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma to Washington, apparently hoping to get them together on some kind of acceptable coalition government. General Phoumi came, talked to President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. But Prince Souvanna, who has visited Russia twice in recent months, politely declined because of his "extremely busy...