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...left behind, the Chinese, who had already pushed a road from Yunnan province into northern Laos, recently agreed to extend it 80 miles down to Luang Prabang. Both Moscow and Peking have worked out deals with Royal Dutch/Shell to give the Laotians gasoline-8,000 tons from the Russians. 7,600 from the Chinese...
...Russians have so far spent more money than the Chinese, but the game of oneupmanship, which the Chinese probably invented, may have already been won by Peking. In Luang Prabang, the capital of figurehead King Savang Vatthana, the Chinese have promised to build a new National Assembly building that will overshadow Moscow's projected gift, a giant statue of the King...
...make matters even worse for the Russians, a cost-conscious Moscow apparatchik decided that, though the Soviets would donate the statue-a duplicate already stands in a Vientiane park -the Laotians would have to transport it through the countryside to Luang Prabang. Miffed by such commissar chintziness, the Laotians have not bothered to move Luang Prabang's bronze statue out of storage in Vientiane...
...Communist victory all but official, the U.S. began accelerating the reduction of Americans in Laos. At the start of the week, about 850 U.S. officials and dependents and 150 businessmen, journalists, missionaries and other private citizens were based there. Some of them came under attack last week. In Luang Prabang, site of King Savang Vatthana's royal capital, leftist students stormed the compound of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Waving banners and banging drums, they smashed desks and tossed typewriters through windows. During a similar attack against USAID facilities at Savannakhet, a youthful mob looted food stocks...
Natural Target. In part, the demonstrations were protests against soaring food prices, which are rising at a rate of 70% annually. In Luang Prabang the students also pillaged food shops. The U.S., however, is a natural target for the left. In the last two decades, Washington has propped up rightist and recently-neutralist governments with more than $3 billion worth of military and economic aid. As a result of the demonstrations, all U.S. personnel based in the Laotian provinces were recalled to Vientiane. Washington insists, however, that it has no intention of closing the embassy. As long as the coalition...