- Title: LAOS: NEUTRALIST PREMIER OPENS SCHOOL FOR MILITARY OFFICERS
- Date: 25th November 1964
- Summary: 1. MLS PAN GENERAL ABHAY WALKS TO SCHOOL (PAN) HONOUR GUARDS 7 ft 2. MS PREMIER PHOUMA ARRIVES 11 1/2 ft 3. MS (PAN) GUARDS PRESENT ARMS 14 1/2 ft 4. MLS PHOUMA AT ATTENTION FACING GUARDS (TWO SHOTS) 18 1/2 ft 5. MLS GENERAL PHOUMI (PAN) PHOUMA 21 ft 6. MLS GUESTS SEATED IN SCHOOL HALL 23 ft 7. MLS PHOUMA WALKS TO DAIS 27 ft 8. MS MILITARY ATTACHES 28 ft 9. LS TRAINEES 30 ft 10. MLS INTERIOR CROWDED HALL 32 ft Initials CAR/S/MK/CA/RBI Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 10th December 1964 12:00
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- Location: VIENTIANE, LAOS
- Country: Laos
- Reuters ID: LVAA04P2RNSTPBKQF2328LC84Q70
- Story Text: GENERAL KOUPRASITH ABHAY, MILITARY GOVERNOR OF VIENTIANE, THE LOATIAN CAPITAL, WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE APRIL COUP STAGED IN THE CAPITAL THIS YEAR, ATTENDED THE OPENING OF A COURSE FOR MILITARY OFFICERS ON MONDAY.
ALSO THERE WAS THE NEUTRALIST PRIME MINISTER, PRINCE SOUVANNA PHOUMA, TO OPEN THE COURSE. THE PRINCE WAS GREETED BY A MILITARY GUARD OF HONOUR WHO PRESENTED ARMS. GENERAL PHOUMI NOSAVAN, LEADER OF THE RIGHTWING FACTION, WAS AT THE PRINCE'S SIDE.
IN HIS SPEECH, PRIME MINISTER PHOUMA TOLD THE GATHERING, WHICH INCLUDED DIPLOMATIC MILITARY ATTACHES ABOUT THE LATEST SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY AND WHAT HE HAD ATTAINED AT THE NON-ALIGNED CONFERENCE HELD IN CAIRO.
WHILE THE OFFICERS ARE UNDERGOING COURSES IN MILITARY WARFARE, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE THREE FACTIONS -- NEUTRAL, RIGHTWING AND COMMUNIST PATHET LAO -- ARE IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL OF PARIS, ENDEAVOURING TO FIND WAYS OF SOLVING THE LAOTIAN CRISIS.
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