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...damaged. Kennedy elected to meet the attack, and to meet it on the question of Laos-even though that was his most precarious battleground. In meeting that test, the President avoided any tone of belligerence, offered to settle for minimal terms. He called for a neutral rather than a pro-Western Laos, a cease-fire rather than a rollback of the Pathet Lao; he was even willing to let Communist China take part in the conference that would work out a settlement...
...offer to the Kremlin. If the Russians would order a ceasefire, then the West would agree to convene the ineffectual three-nation International Control Commission for Laos -consisting of Canada, India and Communist Poland-to certify the truce. Furthermore, the West was willing to scuttle the present pro-Western Laotian government in favor of a truly neutralist...
...their march past before King Savang Vatthana and pro-Western Premier Boun Oum. the armed forces looked trim and efficient. But foreigners were warned not to leave the capital because their protection could not be guaranteed. Most of the government troops on duty in the field had been pulled back to Vientiane to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the Laotian army...
Each state would have its own gendarmes and control its internal affairs. But all dealings with other nations and the outside world will be under control of the central government, headed by pro-Western President Joseph Kasavubu. All that remained' to be worked out was the hardest part: the details and boundary lines for the loosely joined "Confederation of Congo States.'' So many tribal leaders popped up demanding local autonomy that the number of self-declared "states"' jumped to twelve last week (see map), may go as high...
...pro-Western King Savang Vatthana is still widely loved by his countrymen for the same phlegmatic qualities that make him the despair of foreign diplomats. Last week, on the inscrutable advice of his bonzes, the saffron-clad Buddhist priests who abound in Luangprabang, Savang Vatthana decided that, whatever Westerners may think, the signs were propitious for Laos. He announced that at long last he would cremate his father...