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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, August 4, 1962 Situation In Laos Given Run-Down As Reds Enter House (By Father Patrick O’Conner N.C.W.C.NEWS SERVICE) What’s what and who’s who in Laos? This is the Kingdom of One Million Elepl ts and the White Parasol. It is a land-locked country in upper Indo-China, with Burma, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand as next- door neighbors. Ithasthearrned communists of China and North Vietnam leaning over its back fences - but there aren’t any fences. So the communist neigh bors, especially those from ATHENS NEW WAY CLEANERS & LAUNDERERS 'CUSTOM CARE" DRY CLEANING 394 Prince Ave. Athens, Go. JACKSON READY-MIXED CONCRETE Phone LI. 6-1221 T racy Street Athens, Ga. B & B BEVERAGE CO. OF ATHENS 335 Madison Avenue - Phone LI. 6-0727 Athens, Georgia North Vietnam, have been com ing into the back yard. And now they’re in the kitchen with an eye on the parlor. Twice the size of Pennsyl vania, Laos has a population estimated at two million. Its government is a constitutional monarchy, with King Savang Vatthana on the throne and ex ecutive power in the hands of a prime minister and his cab inet. Religion: The state religion is Buddhism. But the mountain people -- Meos, PhuThengs and other ethnic groups — who form more than one-third of the pop ulation, are not Buddhists. They are animists, worshippers of spirits. Catholics in Laos number about 30,000. They are in two vicariates, the mission equiva lents of dioceses, one of Vien tiane, the other of Thakhek, now called Khammouane. Oblates of Mary Immaculate, French and Italian with Laos-born mem bers, staff the first; the Paris missionaries , also with local priests, staff the second. The Vicariate Apostolic of Vientiane has recently recieved an auxil- stand in Dien Bien Phu, where they were overcome in May, 1954. The Vietminh had taken some of the Laotian nationalists under their wing, saw that their move ment was infiltrated by com munists and set them up as an organization on Vietnamese soil. Pathet Lao: This means “Land of Laos.’’ It is the name taken by the “resistance gov ernment,’’ created under Viet minh patronage, in North Viet nam in 1950. It is now the name of the communist-led military forces in Laos. Leo Lao Hak Sat: This, meaning “Laos Patriotic Front,’’ is the name of the political party attached to the Pathet Lao. It, too, is com munist-controlled. While there are communists, obviously, in Laos, no party calling itself communist exists openly. It is said to exist in secret, as a separate organi zation, with a membership es timated variously at from 70 to 600. Armies: There are three. One is the regular Royal Lao- Little Hope Seen For Geneva Agreement SAIGON, Vietnam, - “You might as well try to carry water in a sieve.’’ That’s the way most people in southeast Asia regard the Geneva agreement for the neutrality of Laos. The sieve may be well rounded by diplomatic hands, but it is still full of holes. It is most unlikely that the International Control Com mission can check the withdrawal of North Vietnamese communist soldiers by head count at designated exit points in Laos. The communist Pathet Lao have never admitted the presence of even one Vietnamese soldier in Laos. The integration of the three Laotian armed forces was ex cluded from the Geneva agreement, thus the international commission cannot even make a mild inquiry in regard to the crucial matter. The communist force, now the strongest, thanks to North Vietnamese elements, is sure to grab the dominant part. The communists violated the 1954 Geneva agreements on Vietnam within a month and are still violating them. iary bishop whose residence will be in Luang Prabang. The Church is young in Laos, where the first missionaries entered in 1881 and the first vicariate was erected in 1899. The Paris missionaries were the pioneers. The first Laotian priest was ordained in 1951 and was killed by the communist- controlled Pathet Lao in 1954. There are about half a dozen Laotian-born priests now. Protestants in Laos number some hundreds. Recent background: Laos be came a French protectorate in 1893. At the end of World War II an independence movement resulted in a provisional government that lasted less than a year. The principal men of all three parties in the new coalition government today were members of this Lao- Issara (Free Laos) movement. France gave internal self- government to Laos in 1946 and independence, within the French Union, in 1949. Meanwhile the communist- led Vietminh, under Ho chi Minh, were fighting the French next door in Vietnam. As part of their strategy, they invated Laos in 1953. It was to pro tect Laos that the French made their heroic but disastrous tian army, which the pro-com- munitst prefer to call the troops of “the Vientiane regime.” Then there is the Pathet Lao as well. When anticommunist Gen. Phoumi started his counter coup in December, 1960, Kong Le retreated from Vientiane and joined forces with the Pathet Lao. He has recently made an extended trip to communist countries, including East Ger many, Moscow, Peking and Han oi. He was accompanied by the field commander of the Pathet Lao,. Brig. Gen. Singkapo. Kong Le’s officers vigorous ly deny that they are commun ists and seem to mean it. They are the official bodyguard for neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, now Prime Minister. Prince Souvanna Phouma, half-brother of PrinceSouphan- ouvong, is now 60. He was ed ucated in Hanoi and in France and has a degree in architec tural engineering. He is married to a Catholic, half- French, half-Laotian, and all the children have brought up as Catholics. He does not like communism but he is regarded as being easily swayed - or pushed. “I am only an intermediary between the two wings,” he said last month to some for eign journalists. Prince Souphanouvong, aged 50, French-trained engineer, has been friendly with Ho chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese LEADS LAOS COMMUNISTS - Prince Souphanouvong (foreground), deputy premier of Laos and head of the procommunist Neo Lao Sat party, is shown leaving his well-guarded villa in the Laotian capital of Vientiane. Standing behind the Prince is Quinim Pholsena, neutral ist minister of foreign affairs. Prince Souphanouvong, one of two deputy premiers in the new coalition govern ment, is also minister of economics and planning. The other deputy premier is anti-communist Gen. Phoumi Nosavan. - (NC Photos) ill communists, since 1945. He was head of the Pathet Lao “re sistance government” set up in communist territory in north Vietnam in 1950. In 1951 he was a delegate to the congress of the Lao Dong (Workers ) party, which is the Communist party of Vietnam. His wife is a Viet namese, a supporter of Ho chi Minh. He is a Deputy Premier and Minister of Economics and Planning in the coalition. General Phoumi Nosavan, aged 42, another Deputy Premier, Minister of Finance, fought as a guerrilla against the Japanese during World War II. He joined the first Laotian independence movement but has always been anti-communist. He entered the Laotian regu lar army in 1950. He is a cousin of Gen. Sarit Thanarat, the Premier of Thailand. Priests To Be Observers At Council Session VATICAN CITY, (NC) —The Secretariat,.Promoting Christian Unity has named two priests to serve as official Ca tholic observers at the meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in Paris beginning August 7. They are Father John B. Sheerin, C.S.P., of New York, editor of the Catholic World, monthly magazine and Father Jerome Hamer, O.P., theolo gian attached to the Dominicans’ Le Saulchoir house of studies at Soisy, just north of Paris. Father Hamer is a consultant to the Christian unity secre tariat. The 100-member Central Committee of the World Coun cil, policy-making body of the Protestant and Orthodox group, will meet for 10 days. Last fall, when the World Council held its general assembly in New Delhi, the Holy See de signated five official Catholic observers. J3elU 1689 S. Lumpkin Street At Five Points OFFICE: 1247 Prince Avc. Vlhcns, Georgia 1247 Prince Avenue Prince Plaza Shopping Center School Bus Law Question Taken Under Advisement ANNAPOLIS, Md., (NC)-The Maryland Court of Appeals heard 90 minutes of argument and then took under advisement a technical question related to a controversy about a new school bus law. There was no indication from the court (July 23) when it would rule. The question before the trib unal is whether Maryland’s At- tourney General acted proper ly in rejecting a petition for a state referendum on a law which would authorize larger numbers of private school pu pils to ride tax-paid school bus es in Baltimore County. The Attourney General, as he had with two other unrela ted referendum petitions, re jected the school bus applica tion on the basis that one in valid signature made the en tire petition invalid. He found several invalid signatures. The bus law was adopted in 1961 by the state legisla ture^ It authorized .Baltimore County to remove the ceiling of $15,000 on its annual ap propriation to pay for the trans porting of private school pu pils who live along public school bus routes. In addition, the law provides for the establish ment of bus routes for non- public school students. Opponents of the measure, largely non-Catholic church groups banded together as “The Anti- Bus Bill Committee,” launched a campaign for sig natures to force a state ref erendum on the law. The opponents submitted a petition with more than 20,000 signatures. But the bus bill’s aughor, Rep. Herbert H. Tyler, charged the petition contained invalid signatures. The matter was referred to Thomas B. Finan, State Attourney Gener al, who rejected the petition. International School Opening FRIBOURG, Switzer land, (NC) - The Mar- ianist Fathers and Brothers are opening a new international school here this fall. To be staffed mostly by American Marianists, it will follow an American curriculum. BROOKHAVEN The Budget Grocery Choice Meats Fresh Vegetables Delicatessen Rox Latham, Mgr. 3174 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta 'Dial-A-Saint Receives 846,300 Calls In 2 Years OMAHA, Neb., (NC) - “Dial- A-Saint,” an inspirational tele phone service, has receiv ed 846,300 calls since its in ception in this archdiocese two years ago. The local service, part of a five-year-old program which has established “Dial-A- Christian Art Exhibition ESSEN, Germany, (NC)-Two marble supports from the entrance of the former Basil ica of St. Peter will be on display at the exhibition of “Christian Art From Rome” to be opened here in September by Gustavo Cardinal Testa of the Vatican administrative staff. The fragments, discovered a few years ago during ex cavations under St. Peter’s are masterpieces of stonecutting, with larger-than-life busts of the Apostles Peter and Paul. 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