Word: pro-western
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...week's end there was a good chance that the negotiations would resume, and the U.S. thereby earn a face-saving chance to let once pro-Western Laos slide quietly into neutralism, and then, almost certainly, into the Communist orbit. But West Berlin was another story. The U.S. was firmly committed to the defense of the city-and committed also to keeping Western troops there until Berlin's independence could be firmly guaranteed...
...which had made the cease-fire its only small condition for attending the conference, had no ready counter. The pro-Western Laotian Premier, Prince Boun Oum, who has been sitting on the Riviera doing nothing in particular, was not much help. "The Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would...
...highly intelligent Communist who makes flying trips to Prague and Moscow, has taken the party from a slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...
When the ballots were counted, the Nationalists and their People's Party allies had elected 13 members to the new legislative council, while the Afro-Shirazis had placed only ten. Unless Karume and his pro-Western friends can stage a comeback, tiny Zanzibar will, at best, join the "neutralists," at worst become a dazed camp follower of the Communist bloc...
...conference ground to a recess amid vague hopes that Kennedy and Khrushchev might have some new ideas at Vienna. The peace talks at Ban Namone, deep in the jungle, had dwindled to thrice-a-week meetings between second-stringers. Pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum flew off to one of his favorite places, the Riviera, ostensibly to talk to Sihanouk...