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While the big powers were talking over the heads of the Laotians, General Phoumi. most anti-Communist of Laotian leaders, journeyed to Cambodia last week to see self-exiled Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, who was just back from a visit to northern Laos, where he hailed the pro-Communist rebels as "liberators." Surprisingly, the two old enemies agreed to a three-nation commission of neutrals (Malaya, Burma and Cambodia) to supervise a cease-fire in Laos. In return for Souvanna's assent. General Phoumi. with U.S. encouragement, promised to support Souvanna's policy of "strict neutrality...
...minority of Laotians who know about the war at all, it was simply a fight between the princes. For Laos is a country of princes and peasants, where the democratic process has made no more impact than has the Communist cry of revolution. There is Prince Souvanna Phouma, who claims to be Premier and is recognized as such by the Russians, though he is off in voluntary exile in Cambodia, cultivating gladioli at a royal villa borrowed from Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk. Souvanna is a man so enigmatic that he persistently refuses to define what he means...
Among the most important of the friends is Prince Souvanna Phouma, one of the two rival "Premiers" of Laos. Fortnight ago, neutralist Prince Souvanna sent an aide to Wilde's hotel room in Pnompenh, Cambodia, to tell him he had just half an hour to get one of the best stories of his career: a trip to the Communist side of the front in Laos. Wilde hurried aboard the Ilyushin-14 that was waiting at Pnompenh airport to fly Souvanna north...
What goes on in the rebel-controlled stronghold of north-central Laos? Last week TIME Correspondent James Wilde got a rare chance to see for himself. The Russians have been busily wooing Prince Souvanna Phouma, 59, who was Premier of Laos until he fled to exile in Cambodia last December. Fortnight ago, over dinner and a bottle of vodka at Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov's house in the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, Prince Souvanna agreed to visit the rebel stronghold. He took along his old friend, Correspondent Wilde, who flew out last week with Souvanna and filed...
Last week the Communists talked Laos' neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma (whom they still recognize as the "legitimate" Premier of Laos, though he was deposed three months ago by the National Assembly) into flying into a small airstrip on the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres in north-central Laos. Tearfully, Prince Souvanna embraced Captain Kong Le, the rebels' chief fighting man, and Prince Souphanouvong, who happens to be Prince Souvanna's own half brother as well as the political leader of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. Souvanna forthwith dismissed the King's plan as "facetious and devoid...