Word: souvanna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iron-Curtain Twelve. The immediate conference issue seemed small: where should the three princes-pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum, Red Prince Souphanouvong, and "neutralist"' Prince Souvanna Phouma-meet to form a new government? Boun Oum's man had held out for the royal capital of Luangprabang, but now agreed that the meeting should take place at the village of Hin Heup on the Lik River, where one bank is held by the Royal Laotian Army and the other by the Communist Pathet...
...kept a weather eye on the rain in Laos, where the monsoon-and perhaps an uneasy truce-will end later this month. From the stalled peace talks in Geneva, roving Ambassador Averell Harriman flew to Southeast Asia in an all-but-hopeless effort to establish accord with Sovietsupported Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos' prospective Premier...
...Minister Marshal Chen Yi contemptuously: "I cannot understand why the United States is trying to win at a conference what it has already lost on the battlefield." With the talks thoroughly deadlocked, U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman invited the pro-Western Minister of Defense, General Phoumi Nesavan. and "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma to Washington, apparently hoping to get them together on some kind of acceptable coalition government. General Phoumi came, talked to President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. But Prince Souvanna, who has visited Russia twice in recent months, politely declined because of his "extremely...
...promised to pull out its 300 military advisers from Laos if North Viet Nam would withdraw its estimated 1,000 soldiers. Privately, the U.S. delegation admitted that Boun Oum's government was as good as dead and that the next top man in Laos would be Souvanna Phouma-the very man the U.S. had tried hard...
Back home in Laos, politicians and army chiefs were panting to make a deal with Souvanna, in hopes that his pro-Russian "neutralism" could hold out for at least a while against his half brother's Communism, which is uncompromising and jungle-bred...