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...information, public works and transportation, economic planning, tourism and religion. (Nearly all Laotians are Buddhist, including most of the Communists.) The top post of Premier will go to an individual who is "not affiliated with either one of the two parties." He is certain to be neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, 72, who has ruled Laos, if anyone can be said to have done so, for 17 of the past 20 years. A permanent government is to be chosen in general elections, though no date is mentioned. King Savang Vatthana, who is revered by leftists and rightists alike, will remain Laos...
Both Communist and non-Communist Laotians are looking to Souvanna Phouma for guidance. He is expected to shortly announce the convening of a joint commission charged with carrying out the peace agreement. According to Souvanna, the coalition government will be formed by Oct. 10. He believes that the threat of a Communist takeover in Laos has been exaggerated. "The Laotian people," he confided to friends, "are too easygoing to be Communists...
...onetime commander of the Royal Lao Air Force, who has lived in Thai exile since his 1966 abortive attempt to overthrow the Laotian government. After disembarking at the outskirts of Vientiane, the rebels rendezvoused with about 60 more sympathizers. A coup against Laos' neutralist leader, Prince Souvanna Phouma, had begun...
Compromise seems possible in Laos, where more than one decade of war has made refugees of one-third of its 3,000,000 people. The government of neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma and representatives of his half brother Prince Souphanouvong, who leads the Hanoi-backed Pathet Lao forces, appear ready to try yet another coalition government, as they have done unsuccessfully twice before in the past 19 years. Diplomats in Vientiane report that the Pathet Lao, whose army controls 80% of Laotian territory and about one-third of its population, won most of the concessions in the draft agreement. Although Souvanna...
...premier of the new government is Souvanna Phouma, who is premier of the present Lao government, then the first deputy premier would--by the terms of the agreement-- be a member of the Pathet...