Word: phoumi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months each side has had a man in Laos. The Russians back Captain Kong Le, an ebullient paratrooper who captured Vientiane back in August with a battalion-sized coup. The U.S.'s man was General Phoumi Nosavan, a cautious soldier who four weeks ago chased Captain Kong Le out of Vientiane and installed the government of Premier Boun Oum, an easygoing prince from southern Laos...
...Russian-aided move, Kong Le had virtually cut the country in two and was poised to strike either south toward Vientiane or north toward the royal capital of Luangprabang. But he was outmanned by the larger government garrisons and seemed content to fight minor patrol actions. Nor did General Phoumi seem anxious for a battle to the death...
...uneasy stalemate settled in, the U.S. reluctantly dropped its hopes of a clear-cut military solution in Laos. The British and French thought the U.S. had already gone too far with its plentiful supplies of weapons and Central Intelligence Agency advisers to General Phoumi. The truculent Russian airdrops convinced the nervous U.S. allies that, if pushed too hard, the Soviets might just be willing to start another Korea, this time using North Vietnamese to do the fighting. Equally weighty advice came from the Pentagon, whose planners found the prospects dismaying. With no seaport, jet airfields or railroad, with only...
After taking the capital city of Vientiane by storm, Laos' General Phoumi Nosavan moved to town with his new Premier, easygoing Prince Boun Oum, and a clutch of U.S. "advisers." A majority of the National Assembly had already voted Boun Oum into power, and King Savang Vatthana even bestirred himself to leave the pagodas of his home town, Luangprabang, and visit the capital to give the new government his blessing. But the civil war in Laos was in fact no nearer to an end than ever-and at week's end the Communists were moving ominously to intensify...
...Deputy. The Russians insisted their aid was perfectly legal, having been requested by the government of neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma before he was ousted by Phoumi. But the blatant Russian airdrops were plainly designed to alarm the U.S.'s allies, and they succeeded. Both British and French were frankly appalled at the spectacle of the U.S. and Russia shaping up toward another "war by deputy" on the Korean model. The British argued for a cease-fire and a neutralist Laos with a coalition government that would include the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. They even sent a note to Nikita...