Word: souphanouvong
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...neutralist regime was toppled by the Communist Pathet Lao in 1975; in Vientiane. Nephew of the last Laotian King under French colonial rule. Prince Souvanna became the independent nation's Prime Minister in 1956; he later failed to stem the Pathet Lao, led by his half brother Prince Souphanouvong...
Communist Liechtenstein. Little is known inside or outside Laos about the country's new rulers. "Red Prince" Souphanouvong, half-brother of the ousted Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, will probably stay on as the republic's figurehead President. The new Premier and secretary-general of the party is Kaysone Phomvihan; his principal deputy is Nouhak Phoumsavan, a senior member of the Pathet Lao central committee. Both men have strong loyalties to Hanoi: Kaysone's father was Vietnamese, while Nouhak is reportedly a protege of Ho Chi Minh's. It remains to be seen whether they will...
...Souvanna is the son of his father's first wife; his half brother Souphanouvong, head of the Pathet Lao, is the son of their father's eleventh wife...
Laos' de facto legislature has been the Joint National Political Council, headed by the dynamic titular head of the Pathet Lao, "Red Prince" Souphanouvong, 62, who is Souvanna's half brother. Leftists in the Vientiane government have been steadily tightening their control of key ministries (such as Information and Foreign Affairs) and have triggered disruptive strikes by teachers, police and municipal employees...
Compromise seems possible in Laos, where more than one decade of war has made refugees of one-third of its 3,000,000 people. The government of neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma and representatives of his half brother Prince Souphanouvong, who leads the Hanoi-backed Pathet Lao forces, appear ready to try yet another coalition government, as they have done unsuccessfully twice before in the past 19 years. Diplomats in Vientiane report that the Pathet Lao, whose army controls 80% of Laotian territory and about one-third of its population, won most of the concessions in the draft agreement. Although Souvanna...