Word: souphanouvong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rickety Structure. The Reds were everywhere. Two potent Communist powers, Red China and North Viet Nam, pressed against Laos' borders. Native Communists, led by Prince Souphanouvong, a member of the royal family, controlled the provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly. The two provinces were regained, but at a price: two Cabinet posts for the Communists and the incorporation of two Communist battalions in the small royal Laotian army. As a legal party, the Reds and their allies made further gains in the May elections, emerged with 21 of 59 seats in the National Assembly. Governmental graft, corruption and inefficiency were...
...capital city of Vientiane rang with rumors of a military coup; the Communists under Prince Souphanouvong called for a meeting of the National Assembly, hoping to capitalize on the growing chaos. But Premier Phoui (pronounced Pwee) Sananikone, 55 (TIME, Sept. 1), a muscular and quick-witted six-footer, was ready for them. Last August he had formed a government shorn of the two Communist ministers. He instituted a currency reform that allowed the Laotian kip to find its normal level of 80 to the dollar, and he brought a halt to the scandalous abuse...
Laotian Communists are led by Prince Souphanouvong, who last year convinced his half brother, ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, that he was really just a harmless agrarian democrat, and got included in the government. Last week, seeing himself about to be shoved outside again, Prince Souphanouvong rose in the Assembly to deny that he was a Communist. Answered Phoui smoothly: "I did not definitely say the Prince was one. I simply wondered why he had sent 100 Laotian students to study in North Viet Nam and 300 to study in Red China, including his own children." Phoui was excluding Communists...
...remain "neutral" but pro-Western under Phoui's ministry. The great danger is that it will also remain corrupt, inefficiently run and economically chaotic; e.g., in 1956 the tiny country exported goods valued at $3,000,000, imported goods worth $31 million. If so, the Communists under Prince Souphanouvong will be heard from again...
...United Press fortnight ago announced the name of the new president of the Laotian National Assembly. Bangkok and Hong Kong newspapers printed the story on their front pages, and a TIME correspondent picked it up (TIME, June 2). But the story was wrong. The president was not Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Red-lining Patriotic Front, which last month gained control of 21 of the Assembly's 59 seats. It was instead 47-year-old Pheng Phongsavan, who has been president since 1956 and was re-elected to his third one-year term. If the names sounded a little...