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...turned out to be Chinese-born, and two of them said they did not want to go home. The Cabinet also designated three exit points for foreign troops. Some 800 U.S. military advisers with the Royal Laotian Army will leave via Vientiane; North Vietnamese technicians with Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutralist forces will depart from the Plaine des Jarres. Red Prince Souphanouvong named Nhommarat in south-central Laos as exit point for his Communist allies-which made little sense, since the majority of his estimated 10.000 Vietnamese troops are concentrated in the dense northern jungles, far from Nhommarat...
...more could be done? Disarmament-a meeting of 16 top-level officials around the rocking chair about whether to modify U.S. proposals for an H-test ban (see THE WORLD). Then the President rushed off to receive a visitor about whom he was openly curious: Laos Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, the man whose inertia in the face of the Communists has been the despair of U.S. policy planning for two years. The President found the placid Prince looking far younger than his 60 years, and, if no minds were changed on either side, the U.S. did announce that it will...
While in Geneva, the international conference on Laos tried to work out a formal agreement on Laotian neutrality, the new coalition Cabinet of neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma blandly announced that it planned to recognize practically all the divided countries under the sun: North and South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, Red China as well as Nationalist China. When stunned newsmen pointed out that the rules of diplomacy require that one or the other of the split nations, or neither, be recognized, acting Foreign Minister Pheng Phongsavan professed amazement. "If they accept the laws of Laos, there will...
Married. Princess Moune Souvanna Phouma, 26, slim daughter of the neutralist among Laos' three princely premiers; and Count Hubert de Germiny, 24, French student of diplomacy; in Paris...
...Cabinet ministers involved raced through the investiture ceremonies like men on roller skates. Prince Souvanna Phouma, his halfbrother, Red Prince Souphanouvong, and the outgoing Premier, Prince Boun Oum, drove to the royal palace in Vientiane. Brought before recluse King Savang Vatthana, all three princes-including the Communist, Souphanouvong-bowed low, reverently touched the King's knee, and formally announced their success in creating a government...