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Thus last week did the inexorable march of events sweep tiny Laos, to all intents and purposes, into the Communist camp on the heels of its neighbors in Indochina. So quickly had the Communist-led Pathet Lao consolidated their political and military power that even veteran observers of the sleepy, landlocked kingdom were surprised. "I thought they were going to draw it out," admitted a U.S. official. "But because of what happened in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, they saw no need to wait." Nonetheless, the end of the quarter-century war was typically Laotian. Another U.S. official described...
...Brink. At week's end a takeover by the Communist-led Pathet Lao seemed even more certain. The year-old coalition government teetered on the brink of collapse as five pro-American Cabinet members resigned their posts, leaving the Cabinet virtually in the hands of the Communists. The immediate reason for the resignations was the mounting pressure against the right from leftist student and labor groups. More basic, however, has been the right's increasing sense of futility as it has witnessed the coalition - which technically was supposed to divide power equally between the two factions - work almost...
Laos' de facto legislature has been the Joint National Political Council, headed by the dynamic titular head of the Pathet Lao, "Red Prince" Souphanouvong, 62, who is Souvanna's half brother. Leftists in the Vientiane government have been steadily tightening their control of key ministries (such as Information and Foreign Affairs) and have triggered disruptive strikes by teachers, police and municipal employees...
...Prek Phnou, which is only eight miles from Phnom-Penh, three T-28s dropped napalm on a paddyfield, causing orange flames to spurt across the open area. Three Cambodian youths in ragtag uniforms came trudging down a dirt road; one wore a purple bandanna around his head, another a Pathet Lao peaked cap from Laos, and the third had on a fatigue jacket and red bathing trunks. But all three carried M-79 grenade launchers slung across their slender shoulders...
...deeply involved in the war in Southeast Asia. Starting in 1962, it organized and equipped an army in Laos to fight the Communist Pathet Lao. The army, which grew to 30,000 men, costs the U.S. at least $300 million a year, but Colby credits it with having prevented a Communist takeover...