Word: savang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palace in steamy Vientiane one day last week, handsome King Savang Vatthana of Laos stared thoughtfully at a freshly opened cable from U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I permit myself," wired Hammarskjold, "to express the hope that the line of independent neutrality . . . will be firmly maintained." Twenty-four hours later, with full approval of the U.S. State Department, King Savang Vatthana quietly overthrew the "pro-Western" army group that fortnight ago tumbled the government of ex-Premier Phoui Sananikone (TIME...
...last month he reversed his anti-Communist stance in favor of "neutralism." Seven members of his Cabinet resigned, and the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest demanded that a provisional government be established. Premier Phoui, feeling menaced "politically and physically," last week handed his resignation to King Savang Vatthana...