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...obvious man to include was ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, who was put in office by the rebels last August and chased to exile in Cambodia by the army in December. But the King detests Prince Souvanna, who is his distant cousin. Fortnight ago, a Russian Ilyushin 14 slipped into the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh bearing a rebel delegation that tried to talk Souvanna into returning to Laos to head up a rump government in the rebel-held sector. Souvanna cautiously refused to budge...
...Washington, President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk conferred urgently with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown, who had been hastily summoned from his post, to discuss, among other things, the advisability of returning exiled, neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma to power. In Peking, Red Chinese Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi warned: "If the lawful Laotian government (i.e., the rebels) asked the Chinese government to give aid, I can assure you we would give it." In Paksé, Prince Boun Oum loaded worried Western diplomats on a caravan of elephants and took them on a leisurely tour of surrounding villages, where lithe...
...Cambodia, relaxing in the "Villa of the Mango Trees" lent him by the Cambodian royal family, former Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma blamed his country's troubles on one man: J. ("Jeff") Graham Parsons, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to Laos. "The ignominious architect of a disastrous United States policy," fumed Souvanna. "He understood nothing about Asia and nothing about Laos." According to Souvanna, Parsons "angered" the Russians into intervening by trying to make a militantly anti-Communist state out of Laos. (The prince had no regrets about his own crucial decision...
Middleman. A man in the middle is exiled Prince Souvanna Phouma, a supple but basically pro-Western politician who Russia loudly insists is still the "legitimate" Premier of Laos (ignoring the fact that he too was brought to power by a coup last August...
...first step toward a political solution was to stop the Russian airlifts. The one shred of legality to which the Russians cling is that the supplies were requested by the neutralist government of Premier Souvanna Phouma, who was put in power by Kong Le and is still recognized by the Russians, though he is now surf-bathing in comfortable exile in Cambodia. To end this charade, the U.S. flew National Assembly members to Vientiane from all over Laos last week to vote the Boun Oum government into office. All 41 legislators voted approval (the rest of the 59-man Assembly...