Word: ungerer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1962 Unger has handled three major and countless minor crises in Laos, ranging from the assassination of Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena through bullet-spanging dustups between rightists and Pathet Lao forces. At the same time, he has managed to play endless rubbers of bridge with Prince Souvanna, and tries to get in half a dozen sets of hard-slamming tennis a month. When trouble appears, Unger as likely as not will send his children out riding along the banks of the Mekong River on their Laotian ponies, Victory and Puck, to show family calmness. He accepts the topsy-turvy...
...tightrope is symbolic and means dealing with the tenuous Laotian coalition government. The elephants are real and are usually ridden at every Laotian boun (festival). Len Unger finds the boun a boon for he is an excellent ele phant rider...
Victory & Puck. Through two years of duty in Laos, Unger, 46, has demonstrated what one State Department admirer calls "that uncanny ability to keep several balls in the air at the same time." Born in California, Unger was educated at Harvard (B.A. in geography, 1939), experienced his first diplomatic crisis during the Trieste negotiations of the 1950s, and graduated to Southeast Asia in 1958. In the inter national cat's cradle of Bangkok he learned not only to speak Thai (which is related linguistically to Lao) but also how to keep cool in a hot climate...
...Refusal. With Vientiane secured, the coup leaders confronted irate foreign diplomats, all of whom wanted nothing more than a return to the neutralist status quo, no matter how shaky. In from Saigon jetted William Bundy, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to join Ambassador Leonard Unger in protesting against the coup. Some people, notably neighboring Thailand's strongly anti-Communist government, were delighted by the prospect of a right-wing regime in Laos; but the U.S. argues that such a government simply could not maintain itself in power. The Reds, who were at least theoretically members...
Hurlburt and Unger indicated yesterday that uniform portions from Central Kitchen serving lines would save enough money there to make such extra features as the substitutes possible within the present budgets...