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...week lull, the Communists were on the offensive again. Only 3,500 strong, but well-equipped and highly trained, the Reds seemed well on the way to taking over Laos' important northern provinces. Phongsaly, which borders directly on both China and North Viet Nam, was heavily penetrated. Samneua was now almost entirely surrounded by a 20-mile-wide ring of Communists, and at least a third of the province was under Red control...
Cleft Stick. The Reds struck back. Despite the monsoon rains that were pouring down, sweeping away airstrips and flooding the valleys, Communist-led Black Thai tribesmen, trained and equipped in North Viet Nam, last month invaded the remote northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. Slipping expertly through the suffocating jungle, the Red guerrillas surprised one small Laotian army garrison after another, inflicted 300 casualties on government forces and captured several villages lying astride the classic invasion route into Laos from the battle-renowned village of Dienbienphu...
Rickety Structure. The Reds were everywhere. Two potent Communist powers, Red China and North Viet Nam, pressed against Laos' borders. Native Communists, led by Prince Souphanouvong, a member of the royal family, controlled the provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly. The two provinces were regained, but at a price: two Cabinet posts for the Communists and the incorporation of two Communist battalions in the small royal Laotian army. As a legal party, the Reds and their allies made further gains in the May elections, emerged with 21 of 59 seats in the National Assembly. Governmental graft, corruption and inefficiency were...
LAOS 'Perilous Course' Ever since they set about to reunite their country in the wake of the Geneva Conference three years ago, the royal government of Laos and its Communist-led rebels in the northeastern provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly had been conducting on-again-off-again negotiations (and on-again-off-again war) that nobody seemed to take very seriously. After all, the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, is the half-brother of Communist Boss Prince Souphanouvong, and many of the handful of educated Laotians who make up the government insisted that the whole thing was just...
Immediately after the reunification ceremonies, Communist Souphanouvong announced that he had lost a list of Red officials and army personnel that he was supposed to turn over to his halfbrother. He said he would go back to Samneua and Phongsaly to see if he could get another. The rest of Laos' ministers, all now technically royal and loyal, went nightclubbing. Communist broadcasters in Hanoi, Peking and Moscow were jubilant. "The agreement," said Radio Hanoi, "would serve as a model for the reunification of North and South Viet...