The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 January 1968 — Page 5

Wednesday, January 17, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 5

Foreign News Commentary

By PHIL NEWSOM An end has just about been | written to the farce that has been called the neutrality of Laos. It is not the fault of Prince Souvanna Phouma who took his office as a neutral between political right and left and has strived manfully to make a reality of the neutrality decreed for Laos at a Geneva conference in the summer of 1962. Rather, it is further melan-

choly evidence of the escalating nature of the war for Southeast Asia. The Geneva accord provided a three-way coalition with Souvanna Phouma as premier. His half-brother, Prince Souphanouvong. leader of the Communist Pathet Lao would be a deputy premier. And a second deputy premier would be Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, leader of rightist forces. Phoumi Nosavan long since

has disappeared along with Brig. Gen. Kong Le, who installed Lao’s first neutralist gov. ernment in a bloodless coup in August, 1960, and who later commanded neutralist forces in the field. The ink scarcely was dry on the Geneva accord when it be- i came apparent that the Pathet Lao would not be neutral and that North Vietnam had no in- 1 tention of honoring the clause I ordering removal of all foreign

troops. In May, 1964, the proCommunist Prince Souphanouvong withdrew recognition of Souvanna Phouma as premier. In January, 1965, the United States officially admitted its war planes were flying so-called armed reconnaissance over the jungle-covered Ho Chi Minh Trail along Laos’ spiny eastern ridge which the North Vietnamese were using to siphon their supplies into the South.

Within Laos itself, the Pathet i Lao and North Vietnamese controlled approximately 40 percent of the country, mostly in the north and east to protect the increasingly important Ho Chi Minh Trail. Involved not only was Laos but Cambodia. In Cambodia, the United States attempted diplomacy, concluding with the Cambodian chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, an agreement to expand the facilities of the International Control Commission to guard against Communist border intrusions.

Since it Is subject to Soviet | earlier routes Impossible,

veto, it appears of doubtful

value.

Cambodia’s importance was as a source of Communist sup-

plies.

Militarily, the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos remained

Another was the first reported North Vietnamese air attack on Laos and the apparent defeat of a Laotian garrison at Nam Bae. How much further the war is to escalate remains a question.

the most important since it was But the United States has warn-

the source not only of supplies

but of manpower.

ed it will send troops into Laos rather than to permit a Com-

munist takeover.

And as the United States has stepped up its attacks against the trail so the Communists have taken counter measures. One is a reported attempt to

move the trail farther west I CHICAGO (UPIi The since air attacks have made * number of new or improved

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