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...Cuba, the Administration felt that it could not afford to take any risks in Laos. And so, far from debating whether to go into Laos, the NSC discussed how to get out of the embattled kingdom with the least possible embarrassment. The decision to withdraw dismayed Laos' pro-Western neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam. "If Laos goes to the Communists," warned the Bangkok World, "there will be a readjustment of thinking in Southeast Asia, and it won't be to the advantage of the West...
...Time. On cue from the U.S., pro-Western Premier Boun Oum of Laos eagerly accepted the ceasefire, and even set a day and time for the guns to fall silent. The rampaging Communist-led Pathet Lao agreed to the ceasefire, too, but meanwhile its troops keep right on fighting and advancing. At Vang Vieng, a military headquarters 65 miles north of the capital city of Vientiane, some 400 Pathet Lap launched a dawn attack and chased twice as many government troops 40 miles down the road toward the capital. Among the casualties: three members of a U.S. military mission intended...
...meager $56 a year. Eight of ten Sierra Leoneans eke out a living on the land, but the nation must still import foodstuffs. "We will need help to develop our natural resources," says Sir Milton, adding pointedly, "and we would like to look first to our old friends." Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously absent from the festivities were his left-leaning neighbors, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Toure. The chief opposition party is heavily backed by Nkrumah, and when its leaders threatened to disrupt the freedom...
...Ghana, plus a $5,000,000 credit for Nkrumah's industrial-expansion program. In little Togo, Tito laid the foundation stone for a hydroelectric plant on which his own Yugoslav engineers had done some work. Even in Monrovia, where Liberia's President William Tubman runs a staunchly pro-Western and capitalist little country, Tito offered a $3,000,000 loan for local projects, including a new slaughterhouse and cold-storage plant...
Back in 1953, when it still looked as if the Russians were going to occupy their zone of partitioned Austria forever, grassroots Politician Julius Raab in a friendly but firm way ousted his People's Party colleague, Leopold Figl, from the chancellorship. And although pro-Western Figl was kept on as Foreign Minister, Austria's relations with the Western powers were judiciously permitted to deteriorate until Raab, hat humbly in hand, could travel to Moscow as something of a neutral. On that trip in 1955, he took with him a delicate proposal: an offer of Austrian neutrality...