Along with other habits picked up from their former French masters, the men who rule Laps seem to like to make frequent and complex changes of government. Last week, nearly a month after Paratroop Captain Kong Le forcibly overthrew a pro-Western Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.), Laos once again had a new government—one so complex that even its members were not sure what its policies were.
To avert a threatened civil war between Kong Le and those who opposed his coup. King Savang Vatthana accepted as his Premier Kong Le's candidate for the job: Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. As...
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