Word: vatthana
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...palace in steamy Vientiane one day last week, handsome King Savang Vatthana of Laos stared thoughtfully at a freshly opened cable from U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I permit myself," wired Hammarskjold, "to express the hope that the line of independent neutrality . . . will be firmly maintained." Twenty-four hours later, with full approval of the U.S. State Department, King Savang Vatthana quietly overthrew the "pro-Western" army group that fortnight ago tumbled the government of ex-Premier Phoui Sananikone (TIME...
...National Interest, Phoui's turn to neutralism was weak-kneed behavior. They agreed with Phoui's basic diagnosis, but not with his cure; they favored junta government, openly allied to the West. They had the full support of 52-year-old, Paris-educated King Savang Vatthana, a shy Buddhist who took over the throne only last fall upon the death of his polygamous, bon vivant father (TIME, Nov. 9). Resenting his constitutional position as a national figurehead, the King worked behind the scenes with the army to drive out Phoui. He was sure that if Hanoi or Peking...
...month he reversed his anti-Communist stance in favor of "neutralism." Seven members of his Cabinet resigned, and the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest demanded that a provisional government be established. Premier Phoui, feeling menaced "politically and physically," last week handed his resignation to King Savang Vatthana...
...palace often stopped to listen to the music from the King's khen pipes. But five years ago sickness fell-first rheumatism and then a malignant tumor on the neck. Last August King Sisavang Vong finally turned his duties over to his eldest son, Crown Prince Savang Vatthana, 52. Last week 21 can non volleys thundered over Luangprabang, and the fires in the temples burned all night. At 74 the old King was dead...