Last year's Geneva settlement was supposed to end the fighting in the three Indo-Chinese countries, but for one of them, sleepy, remote Laos,* it did nothing at all.
Under Geneva's terms, the Laotian Communists, who called themselves the Pathet Lao and numbered at the time a mere 1,500 or so, were required to withdraw to two provinces, Phongsaly in the north, wedged between Red China and Dienbienphu, and Samneua in the northeast. Inexplicably, Geneva did not require the Pathet Lao, as it did the Communists in South Viet Nam, to get out or...
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