Word: pro-communist
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...arrangements, a paratroop captain back in Vientiane was preparing a different sort of funeral for the Cabinet itself. Voice of America. A moody soldier trained in a U.S. Ranger course in the Philippines, Captain Kongle, 26, was under orders to take his battalion 40 miles north to hunt down pro-Communist Pathet Lao rebels. Instead, he moved east to a nearby Laotian army camp, where he won over an armored squadron with the fiery plea: "This fratricidal fighting among Laotians must cease!" Rolling back to Vientiane before dawn, Kongle's 3,000 men swiftly captured the capital...
...Since it is a nonexclusive contract and other U.S. businessmen are also negotiating , with the Congo government, he must work fast. Now that he has the contract he must find financial backing. If Detwiler cannot produce-and there were unkind rumors in Leopoldville last week that Lumumba's pro-Communist advisers agreed to the contract in hopes of discrediting all Western businessmen-then the consequences might be disastrous. "If we should lose the resources of the Congo, it would be a serious blow to the free world," says Detwiler. He was counting on investors reacting to his dream...
...France. But it did not bring these ends visibly nearer. In pre-election raids, F.L.N. terrorists killed 17, including three candidates, in Algeria, plus one policeman and four civilians in Paris. And among Frenchmen as well as Algerians impatience for peace was mounting. In Toulouse, the Catholic, pro-Communist and independent unions have joined forces to demand immediate negotiations with the F.L.N. France's big Socialist Party is agitating for a ceasefire, and last week the potent National Students Union announced that it planned to resume its links with the outlawed, pro-F.L.N. Union of Algerian Moslem Students...
...shining reputation for honesty and ability. As governor of the northern province of Houa Khong, Somsanith was one of the few Laotian leaders not involved in the diversion of U.S. foreign aid funds, looked after the non-Lao tribes committed to his care so solicitously that the pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces were unable to make any inroads in his territory. According to Laotian cynics, he is perhaps the only anti-Communist Laotian politician who would win by a sweep in a free election...
Because Quasimodo is a longtime fellow traveler, the pro-Communist Paese Sera cheered "a just and happy decision...