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...next step, and a complete policy reversal, Secretary of State Christian Herter said he now agreed with the British and French that the International Control Commission (India, Canada, Poland) that policed Laos for four years after the 1954 Geneva conference should be revived. Premier Boun Oum was at first reluctant-though his main stated objection was that on their earlier stay the Indians had brought an entourage of 400, who took over the best houses in town, refused to bathe in anything but soda water and cost Laos $12,000 a month in upkeep. The allies will also insist that...
...Russians back Captain Kong Le, an ebullient paratrooper who captured Vientiane back in August with a battalion-sized coup. The U.S.'s man was General Phoumi Nosavan, a cautious soldier who four weeks ago chased Captain Kong Le out of Vientiane and installed the government of Premier Boun Oum, an easygoing prince from southern Laos...
...Souvanna Phouma, who was put in power by Kong Le and is still recognized by the Russians, though he is now surf-bathing in comfortable exile in Cambodia. To end this charade, the U.S. flew National Assembly members to Vientiane from all over Laos last week to vote the Boun Oum government into office. All 41 legislators voted approval (the rest of the 59-man Assembly could not be found). King Savang Vatthana gathered the Cabinet in the National Assembly and gave his official blessings before a gilt statue of Buddha. Approached by a reporter in Cambodia at this point...
Civil war in the steamy Laotian corner of Southeast Asia last week, confined at first to brief scraps and total confusion, now blossomed into the prospect of a fullblown crisis. From Premier Prince Boun Oum came a terse communique: five heavily armed battalions of Communist North Vietnamese soldiers had crossed the border into northeast Laos and had attacked the town of Nonget. It was, cried Boun Oum, nothing less than a case of "flagrant aggression"-another Communist stab along the Asian front, the cold war's broadest and busiest...
After taking the capital city of Vientiane by storm, Laos' General Phoumi Nosavan moved to town with his new Premier, easygoing Prince Boun Oum, and a clutch of U.S. "advisers." A majority of the National Assembly had already voted Boun Oum into power, and King Savang Vatthana even bestirred himself to leave the pagodas of his home town, Luangprabang, and visit the capital to give the new government his blessing. But the civil war in Laos was in fact no nearer to an end than ever-and at week's end the Communists were moving ominously to intensify...