The prince the U.S. had backed in Laos gave up the ghost last week.
The occasion was the private summit conference of the three key Laotian princes, who met amidst a swirl of tubby vacationers at Zurich's Dolder Grand Hotel. At the end of five days of talk, greying Prince Boun Oum, ineffectual Premier of the royal government, sighed wearily: "All I want is tranquillity." Prince Souvanna Phouma, who espouses a doctrine called "neutrality in neutralism" and who is recognized as Premier by the Communists, tolerantly explained: "Boun Oum is a patriot, but...
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