Word: vongsouvanh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reds' persistent subversion is alienating the top neutralist commanders, and last week an open split seemed a possibility. While showing a movie at his house on the Plaine des Jarres. the neutralist army's second in command, Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, was shot in the back. At Ketsana's funeral last week, Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le, who once worked hand in glove with the Pathet Lao, made no effort to conceal his disenchantment with his former cohorts. "This odious crime," said Kong Le, "was the work of those who are under a foreign influence." Kong...
Died. Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, 35, second-in-command to Neutralist Laotian Army General Kong Le, one of the original 17 officers who helped Kong Le carry out his 1960 coup d'état, a man considered violently anti-American until last year when he reportedly began reversing his ideas; by assassination (he was shot in the back while relieving himself behind his home); in Phongsavan at Plaine des Jarres. The murder, widely believed to be the work of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, happened only 36 hours after Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma left on a world tour...
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