Word: savang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avert a threatened civil war between Kong Le and those who opposed his coup. King Savang Vatthana accepted as his Premier Kong Le's candidate for the job: Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. As his part of the bargain, Prince Souvanna turned around and named as his Interior Minister General Phoumi Nosavan, leader of the anti-Kong Le faction. Everybody seemed relatively happy with the arrangement, at least for the moment...
...Cabinet, and to form a new government the captain turned to neutralist, three-time Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, 58. Prince Souvanna put together a Cabinet that included the chief of Laos' primitive Meo tribesmen as Minister of Information. But last week he met a cold shoulder from King Savang Vatthana and open defiance from most of the Royal Laotian Army...
When King Savang Vatthana, to solve a Cabinet crisis fortnight ago, picked old-time Courtier Kou to take over as Premier, Kou instinctively turned for help to his younger brother. He appointed Nhouy his Vice Premier, then made the remarkable announcement that the younger man would do most of the governing. The two brothers last week sat silently together on the embankment of the serpentine Mekong River, their chins resting on their canes, awaiting the fiery sunset. Finally the younger brother spoke: "I wish fervently that the future may give us peace, that we can always remain a placid people...
...Defense of the National Interest, Phoui's turn to neutralism was weak-kneed behavior. They agreed with Phoui's basic diagnosis, but not with his cure; they favored junta government, openly allied to the West. They had the full support of 52-year-old, Paris-educated King Savang Vatthana, a shy Buddhist who took over the throne only last fall upon the death of his polygamous, bon vivant father (TIME, Nov. 9). Resenting his constitutional position as a national figurehead, the King worked behind the scenes with the army to drive out Phoui. He was sure that...
...Ousted Winner. Thus when a handful of creaky Laotian tanks rumbled through Vientiane as symbols of an army coup, the four Western ambassadors-from the U.S., Britain, France and Australia-called jointly on King Savang Vatthana to make their disapproval clear...