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...Laos last week everything was quiet except the guns. In accordance with the 14-nation Geneva agreement last July, the Communist Pathet Lao has released five U.S. and one Filipino prisoner, and anti-Communist Vice Premier Phoumi Nosa-van last week handed over six North Vietnamese prisoners to the Social Welfare Minister. One of the six turned out to be Chinese-born, and two of them said they did not want to go home. The Cabinet also designated three exit points for foreign troops. Some 800 U.S. military advisers with the Royal Laotian Army will leave via Vientiane; North Vietnamese...
...week he was acting his affable best, assuring newsmen that the new Laos was happy to accept aid "without conditions" from East and West. Washington was swift to make its contribution: the payment of $3,000,000 a month to the Laos government-suspended last February to help force Phoumi into the coalition-was resumed...
Minded Store. The other neutralist ministers range politically from liberal to far right, including some who are as determinedly anti-Communist as General Phoumi himself. Biggest problem ahead is how to integrate the three rival armies: 1 ) Phoumi's 60,000 Royal Laotian troops, 2) Souphanouvong's 15,000 Communist Pathet Lao and 3) Captain Kong Le's 5,000 "neutralist" paratroops. Souvanna hopes to reduce the swollen army to the size of a national police force and to use the discharged troops in such public works as building roads, schools and dispensaries...
...first real test of Communist intentions may come next week, when Premier Souvanna Phouma flies to Paris for the marriage of his daughter, and Vice Premier Phoumi Nosavan is slated to lead a delegation to Switzerland for the formal signing of the Geneva draft agreement reached at the 14-nation conference last December. This would leave Red Prince Souphanouvong at home to mind the store, since as Vice Premier he would become acting head of government. Souphanouvong last week fumed at the 5.000 U.S. troops in northern Thailand, whose presence had clearly helped persuade him to accept the coalition deal...
...Washington sees it, Souvanna's neutralist government represents the most palatable of several ugly alternatives. The U.S. has tried to defeat the Reds in Laos by arming and training General Phoumi's army-but Phoumi failed. The Pentagon remains reluctant to commit U.S. armed forces to a landlocked, roadless and rugged terrain for an endless guerrilla war against Communists from China and North Viet Nam. Souvanna may well suffer the fate of other non-Communist leaders who have tried to govern in conjunction with the Reds and have lost their countries to Communist subversion...