Word: souvanna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight months since the 14-nation Geneva conference established Laotian neutrality last summer, neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma's left-right-center coalition government has displayed a remarkable record of consistency: it has failed to carry out one single provision of the Geneva accords. Rent by internal dissension, the government has been unable to maintain a ceasefire, evict all foreign military personnel from Laos, integrate the three military and political factions, or hold free elections. But the supposedly "neutralist" government has recognized every country in the Communist bloc, and has done so little to halt the rampant inflation that...
...year when he reportedly began reversing his ideas; by assassination (he was shot in the back while relieving himself behind his home); in Phongsavan at Plaine des Jarres. The murder, widely believed to be the work of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, happened only 36 hours after Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma left on a world tour...
...turned out to be Chinese-born, and two of them said they did not want to go home. The Cabinet also designated three exit points for foreign troops. Some 800 U.S. military advisers with the Royal Laotian Army will leave via Vientiane; North Vietnamese technicians with Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutralist forces will depart from the Plaine des Jarres. Red Prince Souphanouvong named Nhommarat in south-central Laos as exit point for his Communist allies-which made little sense, since the majority of his estimated 10.000 Vietnamese troops are concentrated in the dense northern jungles, far from Nhommarat...
...deny to the Communists effective control of these areas. Unfortunately, the Meos are dependent on air drops for everything from food to ammunition. The U.S. therefore faces an unpleasant dilemma: the one useful force it created in Laos is in danger of being starved out unless resupplied by parachute. Souvanna's government has repeatedly charged the U.S. with air intrusions since the cease-fire agreement. Fortnight ago. Souvanna's antiaircraft gunners in the Plaine des Jarres claimed to have shot down a U.S. F101 jet. U.S. officials in Vientiane curtly denied the charge and said that...
...what more could be done? Disarmament-a meeting of 16 top-level officials around the rocking chair about whether to modify U.S. proposals for an H-test ban (see THE WORLD). Then the President rushed off to receive a visitor about whom he was openly curious: Laos Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, the man whose inertia in the face of the Communists has been the despair of U.S. policy planning for two years. The President found the placid Prince looking far younger than his 60 years, and, if no minds were changed on either side, the U.S. did announce that...