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Since the Geneva accords of 1962 established its tripartite "neutrality," the landlocked, Lilliputian kingdom of Laos has teetered continually on the cliff-edge of chaos. Torn between the demands of the rightist Royal Laotian Army and the intransigent Communist Pathet Lao, which controls nearly half of the country, Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma maintains a facade of government simply because he is the only Premier acceptable to both the West and the Communist powers. Last week, when Laotians went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly in the first countrywide elections since 1960, foreign observers from a dozen capitals...
Caught in a Vise. Souvanna Phouma did not have to fear the Communists in the elections: the Pathet Lao boycotted them. His strongest opposition came from the rightist south, where portly Prince Boun Oum-his predecessor as Premier until 1962-was attempting a comeback with the aid of southern army commanders and Deputy Premier Leuam Insisiengmay. Souvanna also faced trouble in the north, where Guerrilla Leader Vang Pao had picked his own candidates, afraid that the military rightists led by General Kouprasith Abhay, Souvanna's chief backer, would become too powerful and attempt to bring his anti-Communist...
Frustration is dangerous stuff in Germany, and the outside world understandably overreacts to any sign of it, as it did to the recent small successes of the far-rightist National Democratic Party. The problem is that no matter how much the West Germans may want to change their role and status in the world, they are stuck with their past?just as the man they chose as Chancellor is stuck with his unfortunate decision to join the Nazi Party...
Protest Vote. The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats were spurred to find a quick solution to the governmental crisis by last week's state election results in Bavaria, where the newly emerging far-rightist National Democrats polled a surprising 7.4% of the votes, winning 15 seats in the state's 204-seat Landtag. Most experts felt that many of the votes had been cast in protest against what the far rightists called "the mess in Bonn." The results served notice on the Christian Democrats and the Socialists that they must either organize a strong new government...
...Preserved. It would be oversimplifying to see Dos Passos as one who has taken two paces to the left and three to the right. There is a core of consistency in his work that reconciles the "left" tone of U.S.A. with the "rightist" color of District of Columbia. Big Business was the enemy in U.S.A. In District, the focus of power shifted: the first novel in that trilogy dealt with the power of Communism to corrupt innocent idealism; the second was a primer on political demagoguery; the third a parable directed against the emotional debaucheries of the New Deal...