Word: souvanna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gromyko found L.B.J. racing through a schedule that even by Lyndon's standards was frenetic. He was boning up for his Asian tour, politicking for Democrats, discussing Viet Nam with Laos' Prince Souvanna Phouma and Britain's Foreign Secretary George Brown...
...Prince Souvanna Phouma, premier of Laos, will be an official guest of Harvard today. His tentative schedule calls for a tour of the University at noon; lunch at the home of John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; a visit to Widener Library and the Fogg Museum; a talk with George P. Baker, dean of the Business School; and dinner at Quincy House, with a speech there afterwards...
Next came a three-hour visit to Laos. A military band welcomed Humphrey with Marching Through Georgia, and Premier Souvanna Phouma made no secret of his concern over the Communist military on the march in his divided country. But Souvanna, who hugs the fiction of neutralism as closely as the Communist rebels allow him, wanted no talk of military countermeasures. "The people must go on improving their way of life despite the war," he told Humphrey. "That is why we would prefer to see tractors arrive rather than weapons." Agreeing, Humphrey expounded eloquently on the TVA-style Mekong Valley development...
Anger & Appetite. Also last week, the International Control Commission provided for by the original Geneva agreement listed the North Vietnamese violations. And Laotian Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma ordered his U.N. mission to issue a complaint. "We had always respected the North Vietnamese leaders and army," said Laotian Counselor Khamchan Pradith. "We have since found out that they are only warmongers, murderers, thieves and liars...
...South Viet Nam has 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...