Word: souphanouvong
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...Dienbienphu of 1961 for the U.S.," crowed the New China News Agency, predicting that just as France had been forced to negotiate from defeat in 1954, the U.S. would now have to surrender Laos. The Communists' two favorite Laotian princes, ex-Premier Souvanna Phouma and his half brother, Souphanouvong, arrived in Geneva from Moscow to explain that Padong was only a "cleansing" operation (Western delegates were calling it a disaster, but in some ways, Souvanna's term was more accurate, since in typical Laotian fashion, only ten defenders were killed at Padong before the royal army fled...
...Russia, "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma seemed to become more Communist-minded with every new Communist bigwig he met, every big reception they organized for him. In Peking, he was met at the airport by Premier Chou En-lai and, together with his half brother and traveling companion, Red Prince Souphanouvong, was flown to the lakeside resort of Hangchow for a personal chat with Mao Tse-tung. Souvanna emerged warmly telling his Red Chinese hosts: "When we again have peace, it is to you we shall turn for aid in building our economy." In a joint communiqué, Souvanna blamed...
...midweek, the U.S. State Department called in Russian Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov and declared that the U.S. viewed the continued fighting with "deep concern." The fighting went right on. Red Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Pathet Lao, boasted: "Our troops and our people are in the position of a victor!" The tiniest Laotian village could read the future. At Ban Sai, barely eight miles from Vientiane, the local chief, who had been begging for U.S. aid to build a market road, last week turned down an offer of $1,000. "Go away and don't come back," he said...
Souvanna Phouma, still recognized by the Communists as Premier and now tolerated by the U.S., is clearly returning to take over power. All factions, including the Pathet Lao's Red Prince Souphanouvong, will peacefully assemble in Luangprabang, this week for the long delayed cremation of King Savang Vatthana's father, who has been encased for 18 months in a sandalwood coffin. As the government-controlled Lao Presse hopefully put it: the cremated King, in his "final departure toward nirvana, might bring about the miracle for which the whole world waits...
...made a career of ambiguity, Prince Souvanna may just possibly be the perfect expression of Laos' national Geist. As Premier from 1956 to 1958, Souvanna tried to make a deal with the Pathet Lao, which happens to be headed by his half brother, Red Prince Souphanouvong. Souvanna's view is simple: no Laotian could possibly be a Communist, least of all his brother. When bouncy little Captain Kong Le and his paratroopers staged an exasperated and successful revolt last August against the current pro-Western Laotian government, he installed Souvanna as Premier as the Laotian who most deeply...