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...feminine stringers) is Pamela Sanders, who, to use the highest accolade in Southeast Asia, is "Numbah One," in Laos as well as Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand, to pilots and mechanics of Huey helicopters and Air Force bombers. She is a much respected friend of local politicians, international truce inspectors as well as G.I.s, has taken part in countless dangerous missions in the past year. Recently, spending five days at Neutralist General Kong Le's headquarters in the Plain of Jars, she was enlisted to teach English to members of his battalion. Back home in the capital of Vientiane...
Just a year after the Geneva agreement consolidated Laos' three warring factions into a single government, the precarious arrangement is falling apart. Reason: the Communists are simply ignoring the truce, as well as their longtime alliance with Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, and are seeking to wrest control of the vital Plain of Jars in central Laos from neutralist troops. Though at first suspicious of the neutralist regime, Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan sent four battalions to help it. Despite such assistance, the neutralist forces under General Kong Le have only one strategic position left on the plain - Phou Theneng mountain...
...with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets to enforce martial law. A 10 p.m. curfew was imposed on all Cambridge citizens. The militiamen were ordered into Cambridge by Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes after Negro demonstrations threatened to break into open warfare between the races. During a temporary truce, Negro leaders negotiated with white city councilmen for the anti-segregation ordinances they have demanded...
...idled beside the crystal pool of Beirut's Hotel Phoenicia. Then marching orders came from the United Nations in New York: by a 10-0 vote, with the Soviet Union abstaining, the Security Council last week approved Secretary-General U Thant's plan to send a U.N. truce team to strife-torn Yemen...
Most immediate threat to the truce is Israel's projected plan to start diverting Jordanian waters from the Sea of Galilee next year. Arabs have long threatened to fight the minute Israel opens the taps. On the other hand, Israel has threatened to march into Jordan if King Hussein succumbs to a Nasser takeover. Asked how long the U.N. might have to stay, a veteran U.N. observer shrugged and said: "Fifteen more years...