Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers and construction workers. North Vietnamese troops operating in South Viet Nam frequently use Laos as a refuge to escape from attack, and some of them mix with the Pathet Lao during periodic attacks on the Royal Laotian Army...
...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 Meo tribesmen under Royal Army control...
Some Problems. The liaison was well known in Mayfair circles, but last week, when the earl's wife started divorce proceedings on grounds of adultery, it became public knowledge. It was the first time that a member of the royal family had been named as the guilty partner in such a suit. The earl will not contest the case; he intends to marry his new lady "if and when they are legally free...
...England, that presents some problems. Though the earl can be divorced like any ordinary Briton, remarriage is another matter. Harewood comes under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which was rammed through Parliament by George III in an effort to stop his kin from keeping house with commoners. The act requires the sovereign's permission for any royal marriage; the punishment for ignoring it is to deny the title to the offender's wife and children...