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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...
...went." The Viet Minh "technicians," who are manning everything from the howitzers to the hospital, made threatening gestures whenever he came near. "The Russians were of course furious at my taking pictures of their planes. At one point, there was some question whether they would transport me back to Pnompenh. But Souvanna intervened, and I was taken along...
...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 an eye-witness account...
...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...
...Paris. Last week, with the hospital finally finished, a clutch of Russian dignitaries headed by Soviet Health Minister S. V. Kurashov showed up in Pnompenh for the dedication ceremonies. Plainly aware that only a week earlier Sihanouk had jailed 16 top Cambodian Communists for "working in liaison with foreigners," Minister Kurashov tried to play it cool. As a Cambodian army band emphasized its neutrality by alternating U.S. jazz with Russian lullabies, Kurashov brought Nikita Khrushchev's personal assurances that "the Soviet Union never interferes in the internal affairs of other nations. We are your true and trusted friend...