Word: souvanna
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...that history has played itself out in Southeast Asia has considerably complicated some of the old simplisms of the era, and therefore changed some old opinions. The North Vietnamese, whom Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos once called "the Prussians of Southeast Asia," have imposed a grim, repressive regime throughout the country, but most forcibly upon the South. Ambitious and militaristic and given to a Stalinist style of dogmatism, they have turned the South into a police state. They have even abolished the old National Liberation Front, which they had long billed as the voice of the people in revolutionary South...
...DIED. Souvanna Phouma, 82, courtly former Prime Minister of Laos, whose 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...