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...Time. On cue from the U.S., pro-Western Premier Boun Oum of Laos eagerly accepted the ceasefire, and even set a day and time for the guns to fall silent. The rampaging Communist-led Pathet Lao agreed to the ceasefire, too, but meanwhile its troops keep right on fighting and advancing. At Vang Vieng, a military headquarters 65 miles north of the capital city of Vientiane, some 400 Pathet Lap launched a dawn attack and chased twice as many government troops 40 miles down the road toward the capital. Among the casualties: three members of a U.S. military mission intended...
...Important Thing." Western powers were indeed discussing some further concessions to the Communists. They were prepared to chuck the pro-Western though ineffectual Laotian government of Premier Boun Oum, restore left-leaning "neutralist" ex-Premier Souvanna Phouma as the Russians demanded. Last week a touring Souvanna admitted grandly in Paris that "it was on my request that the Soviets have granted, during the past few months, aid to troops faithful to my government." In any event, Souvanna was the same man whom the U.S. could have had six months ago at a far lower cost...
Souvanna has done better in exile than most Laotian premiers have done in power. The Russians (and the Pathet Lao) still recognize him as the "legitimate" government of Laos-despite the fact that a majority of the Laotian legislature approved the installation of Prince Boun Oum as General Phoumi's candidate for Premier. Unofficially, the British, French and Indians have let it be known that they consider Souvanna the best of all possible Laotians. Two weeks ago, Souvanna took off on a junket to seek support in the world's capitals...
...their march past before King Savang Vatthana and pro-Western Premier Boun Oum. the armed forces looked trim and efficient. But foreigners were warned not to leave the capital because their protection could not be guaranteed. Most of the government troops on duty in the field had been pulled back to Vientiane to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the Laotian army...
Peasants & Politicians. Virtually all of northern Laos that remained under government control was the Mekong River valley-and that was fast going. General Phoumi Nosavan and most of the members of Premier Boun Oum's Cabinet flew their wives and children downriver to the relative safety of Phoumi's southern headquarters in Savannakhet. Chinese merchants and those Laotians who could afford it sent their families across the Mekong into Thailand. In the villages surrounding Vientiane, peasants resignedly dug foxholes. Said one: "This war is not our business." The one thing the peasants clearly wanted...