Word: phoumi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peasants & Politicians. Virtually all of northern Laos that remained under government control was the Mekong River valley-and that was fast going. General Phoumi Nosavan and most of the members of Premier Boun Oum's Cabinet flew their wives and children downriver to the relative safety of Phoumi's southern headquarters in Savannakhet. Chinese merchants and those Laotians who could afford it sent their families across the Mekong into Thailand. In the villages surrounding Vientiane, peasants resignedly dug foxholes. Said one: "This war is not our business." The one thing the peasants clearly wanted...
...Laos, chose to fan the flames, the U.S. reaction would be immediate. For every two guns the Communists sent to the Pathet Lao. the U.S. was prepared by way of "escalation"' to ship three to the pro-Western army of Premier Boun Oum and his strongman, General Phoumi Nosavan...
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...
...sort of Buddhist Falstaff." One of Boun Oum's supporters called him "the most representative personality of the kingdom"-by which was meant that he is excessively fond of drinking and wenching. In fact, Boun Oum owes his position to the strong man on the Western side-General Phoumi Nosavan. an anti-Communist soldier who captured Vientiane three months ago and forced Souvanna into exile...
...General Phoumi Nosavan, the one Laotian resolved to keep Communists out of the government at all costs, believes that the prince means what he says. Prince Souvanna Phouma doesn't believe him-on the ground that Souphanouvong is his half brother and therefore couldn't possibly be proCommunist...