With the U.S. and Russia warily sidling toward negotiations in Laos (see THE NATION), the man in the middle of the muddle was sleek and equivocal Prince Souvanna Phouma. A man who has made a ...

Only a fortnight ago, Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma agreed with a delegation from the royal pro-Western government that the thing to do was get a neutral nations commission into Laos to stop ...

At that time, she came to Laos at the invitation of Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist prime minister of a country bombarded daily by the United States, especially along the mountain ranges separating it ...