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...increasing sense of futility as it has witnessed the coalition - which technically was supposed to divide power equally between the two factions - work almost solely to the advantage of the Pathet Lao. Ailing Prince Souvanna Phouma, the 73-year-old neutralist Premier, has consistently pressured the demoralized and leaderless rightists into accepting the demands of the Pathet Lao Cabinet members. Last summer, for example, the rightist-dominated National Assembly was suspended and later formally dissolved because some of its members had called for the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from Laos...
Last week terror was added to the growing pressure from the left; an unidentified assailant tossed a hand grenade into a car full of rightist politicians and Chinese businessmen. Among the three killed was former Minister of Religion Boun Om, brother of the warlord of southern Laos, whose name is Boun Oum, and uncle of Sisouk na Champassak, the powerful Minister of Defense, who was among those that resigned. It was the first assassination of a rightist political figure since the ceasefire, and has unsettled many leading rightists. They now fear for their own and their families' safety; Boun...
Since she took office after the death of her husband last July, Argentina's President Isabel Perón has been bedeviled by leftist guerrillas, rightist extremists, angry farmers and restive labor unions. Lately her government has seemed on the verge of foundering. Some diplomatic observers have even predicted a military takeover. Yet last week Mrs. Perón received an unexpected vote of confidence...
...demonstrators, said that the demonstration's date was chosen to coincide with the visit in Boston of Juan Carlos Corral, leader of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadotes and a well-known Argentinian left-wing politician who has been placed on the published death-list of the rightist Anti-Communist Alliance...
...military dictatorship leans toward the left. It has nationalized several U.S. businesses, and has initiated reform programs to make Peru's economic life more independent. Peru is now under heavy pressure, perhaps even in danger of military attack. It shares borders with Chile. Bolivia and Brazil, all ultra-rightist regimes and all client states of the U.S. Also it has just been announced from Washington that the Administration is considering cutting off all arms aid to Peru, on the grounds that such action would balance the U.S. Congressional ban on arms aid to Chile...