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...Communists plainly have nothing to fear from the tame rightists in the Cabinet. Earlier in the week, Khamouane Boupha, a Pathet Lao general, had been named acting Defense Minister by Souvanna to replace the rightist Sisouk na Champassak, who had resigned. Boupha immediately issued orders grounding the air force, forbidding all troop movements and demanding declarations of loyalty to the new command from all military units...
...growing pressure from the left; an unidentified assailant tossed a hand grenade into a car full of rightist politicians and Chinese businessmen. Among the three killed was former Minister of Religion Boun Om, brother of the warlord of southern Laos, whose name is Boun Oum, and uncle of Sisouk na Champassak, the powerful Minister of Defense, who was among those that resigned. It was the first assassination of a rightist political figure since the ceasefire, and has unsettled many leading rightists. They now fear for their own and their families' safety; Boun Oum has reportedly gone into hiding somewhere...
...increase in activity on the part of anti-government guerrilla forces adds even further to the malaise of the Bangkok government. During fighting on the Plain of Jars in December 1971, Thai troops suffered "extremely heavy casualties," according to a London Times interview with the Defense Minister of Laos, Sisouk no Champassak...
...forced Peking and Hanoi to put Laos on the back burner, and as long as the war goes on, nothing the Laotians do can amount to much more than a political holding action. "Events in South Viet Nam will decide everything," says Premier Souvanna. Adds Finance Minister Sisouk: "For the Americans to pull out of Southeast Asia would not only be a tragedy but a disaster...
...loyal to Souvanna and who worry about such things as education, health and corruption in gov ernment. Apparently, other Laotians are equally concerned, for the Young Nationalists won twelve of the 16 races they entered in the July elections. Their leader, 37-year-old Finance Minister Sisouk Na Champassak, practices what he preaches. "I have fired the entire customs department," he announced shortly after he took office, adding sardonically, "It may have reduced corruption there...