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8 A THURSDAY. JULY 25, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Peace in Laos Appears Further Away Than It Did a Year Ago By RAY F. HERNDON United Presa International Vientiane, Laos - tUPI) - If the answers to the crisis in neiehborine Viet Nam are tortuous, painful and expen ive. there seem to be no answers at all here in Laos. Peace, If anything, is fur ther out of sight than it was a year ago last Tuesday when 13 nations - including the United States, Britain, Russia and Communist China - signed the Geneva agree ment guaranteeing the inde pendence and neutrality of Laos. At that time, the Commu nist faction in Laos had been on the offensive, American troops had been carrying out "exercises" across the border in Thailand to prevent a Com munist invasion there and the Geneva agreement of 1954 aimed at creating stability in the Indo-Chinese peninsula, was a dead letter. Again on Offensive One year later the Commu nist faction again is on the of fensive, American troops again have been carrying out warning exercises in Thailand and the Geneva Agreement of 1062 is more dead than alive. In signing that agreement, the United States wrote off Its long and unsuccessful attempt to prop up a series of pro Western governments in Laos. In so doing, the United Slates made formal its de cision not to send its soldiers into Laos - a project that would have been forbiddingly costly in men and money. There were hardly any il lusions about the Geneva agreement even before it was signed. Stick to Agreement True, President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrush chev had agreed Laos should be peaceful and neutral. By ' thousands. and large, the Soviets have stuck to their agreement not to Interfere further in Laos, But the Communist Chinese and North Vietnamese have not. Whether this delighted or discomfited the Russians is hardlv imoortant. Nor has this surprised the Americans. What it does mean is that, though the American military advisory teams have left Laos, the U.S. effort there in aid and advice continues, What it further means is that Laos, an artificial cre ation of the 1954 Indochina agreement, but strategically Hip huh of Southeast Asia, re mains a hot war pawn in the cold war. Bitter Diiappointment If the Laos situation has been a bitter disappointment for the United States and the West, it has been equally gall ing for the Communists. They had hoped the ncu tralist- headed coalition gov crnment would cave in and go Communist. Instead, the Com munist faction found itself outnumbered and outvoted In this capital city of Vientiane. If they had hoped the Americans would stop bolster ing the coalition with weapons and supplies, they were wrong. i Indeed, the Communists ac cuse tne untied aiut.es ui maintaining its military ad visers In Laos, disguised as technicians and aid coordinators. Hardly In Position The Communists are hardly in a position to make charges about foreign interference, but they do. The chief Of the coalition government, Premier - Prince Souvauna Phouma, has pub licly accused North Viet Nam of keeping Its troops In Laos. They are estimated in the t I AtlK I yQi MAK.22 . -fc.AP. 20l STAR GAZERS Bf CLAY K. POIXAN 3 jf 1 ivr v svi'oy-i-urj WAUM MAY n JUNE 22 ? 4- frW 371 & 44-4647 CANUt M.'UN." 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They keep open the Ho Chi Minn trail along which men and supplies from North Vict Nam are tunneled into South Vict Nam. The pattern of the fighting indicates the North Vietna mese are more interested at present in keeping the trail open and maintaining tactical supremacy on the strategic Plain of Jars than in seizing the big cities and driving for the Mekong river. For across the Mekong lies Thialand, whose protection has been actively guaranteed by the United States. Long-Range Objective The long-range objective of the Pathet Leo and their North Nietnamese allies has never been in question: Re uniting the whole Indochinese peninsula under the banner of Communism has been the announced goal of North Viet Nam since 1951, Western and some neutral diplomats here in the admin istrative capital of Vientiane agree that: -The three -sided coalition of neutralists, Communists and rightists is finished. The Pathet Lao will neither return to the capital nor work to re store the coalition government. -The best that can be hoped for is a cease - fire which would further solidify the de facto partition of Laos. The Communists are not expected to abandon the form of coali tion, though its substance has Just about vanished. -Otherwise, the Pathet Lao will continue their piecemeal military aggression in an ef fort to seize more and more territory and to exact political concessions from the neutral ist and rightist factions. A Peaceful People The Lao are a peaceful peo ple - even the highly indoctri nated Pathet Lao need con stant prodding by the hard driving North Viet Nainese. For that matter, the Lao are not really a people, but a col lection of various peoples. Laos is not so much a country as place on the map. But its place on the map is crucial. The fall of Laos to the Pathet Lao would put a Communist regime on the borders of pro-Western Thai land, neutralist Cambodia and pro-Western South Viet Nam. it would make the U.S. task of helping defend South Viet Num even more difficult than It is now, if not impossible, i Oregon Supreme Court Decisions Salem-IUPD-Tlie Oregon Su-i premc Court Wednesday up-1 held the negligent homicide conviction of Charles Eugene Belts of Baker. A passenger In Bells' car was killed when It led the road and crashed. The deci sion upheld Baker County Circuit Judge Lylc R. Wolff. Betts had contended it was in error for the trial court to deny his motion to require the district attorney to decide whether to prosecute him for negligent homicide or for manslaughter. . Belts also argued that a doctor's testimony that the defendant's speech and smell indicated lie was intoxicated shouldn't have been allowed He said the testimony wus a violation of the law which says that a physician-patient relationship is confidential and privileged. Not In Error The Supreme Court ruled that while the physician paticnt privilege Is valid in civil proceedings that It was not In error to let a doctor testify in a criminal case such as this. The court also upheld a Wasco County Circuit Court decision involving a traffic accident between a deputy sheriff answering a police call and another driver. The other driver, Boyd H. Owens, had sued deputy sheriff Delphia I. Goss. Goss admitted he was negli gent In falling to stop at an intersection with an arterial street but argued Owens was also ncRllgeni for driving too fast and failing to keep a proper lookout. ""The court ruled It was proper for the Jury to decide whether Owens was also negligent. It said the fact he was on an arterial street duty of exercising proper speed, lookout and control. Other Decisions Other Supreme Court deci sions today: Robert E. Merrill vs. Slate Industrial Accident Commis sion, Douglas County Circuit Judge Don II. Sanders' deci sion for plaintiff upheld. Charles W. and Ethel M. Prigge vs. Paul Carmichael, Marion County Circuit Judge George R. Duncan's decision for plaintiff affirmed. vera S. Lhrlsteoson vs Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Lane County Circuit Judge Edward Levy s deci sion for defendants affirmed Edith Muyniird vs. Oregon Willamette Lumber Co., Mult nomah County Circuit Judge Alfred T. Snlmoneltl's dec! slon for defendants reversed and ease remanded for new trial. Howard W. Crane vs. State Industrial Accident Commis sion, Multnomah County Cir cuit Judge James W. Craw ford's decision for defendant upheld. Willard K- Carry vs. Velate Henderson Leonard, Union County Circuit Judge William W. Wells' decision for plain tiff upheld. flirt, .1 r htm Irmn the Area Requests Night Patrol Due to Thefts Residents of the Valley View area north of Ashland have asked that a night patrol operate In the area because of thefts and traffic violations which have been occurring during the past two weeks, the Jackson county sheriff's office has reported. The request was made by J. Rodney Keating, an nrchardist in the Valley View c-mmttnliv. , Otis Air Base Wing Readied for Jackie Kennedy ' Washington-ITJPD-A wing of the base hospital at Otis Air Force Base, Mass., has been specially prepared as a ma ternity suite for Mrs. Jacque line Kennedy at a cost of more than $12,000. It was understood that the facilities were set up for Mrs. Kennedy to have her baby next month at the hospital, 18 miles from her summer home at Hyannls Port, If she should decide against return ing to Washington for the birth. Still Possibility Original plans were for the First Lady lo go to Walter Reed Army Hospital here. This still has not been ruled out, but the arrangements are being made for her care at Otis AFB on an "if needed" basis. Mrs. Kennedy's press secre tary, Pamela Turmrre, con firmed today that a suite had been "spruced up" at Otis in a "purely precautionary' move. She said Mrs. Kennedy still planned to return to Washington in time to have her baby. The birth is expect ed late next month. The wing being reserved for Mrs. Kennedy was report ed to contain seven or eight rooms, collected by a corridor to the main hospital building. Her room would be about 100 feet from the delivery room. The suite includes a room for the President, which is said to have bullet-proof win dows. Other features arc a special kitchen, a nursery, a medical room, and a doctor's room. The bed for Mrs. Kennedy wa.i described as the standard metal hospital type, hut other furnishings were reported to be more elaborate. Among them are color television re ceivers. The wing, which has not been in recent use, was re painted and redecorated. One source put the total cost at more than $12,000. The Otis base hospital is about 30 minutes by auto - or 10 minutes by helicopter -from the Squaw Island home where Mrs. Kennedy is spend ing the summer with her two children, Caroline, 5 and John Jr., 2. SECOND PLAY "Romeo and Juliet" will open tonight in Ashland at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival for the second play in this season's schedule. Shown in a scene from the play Juliet (Marian Hailey, San Francisco, Calif.) is impatient to learn news of Romeo, but her Nurse (Elizabeth Huddle, San Francisco, Calif.), breathless and weary, will not be rushed. The production is being directed by Robert B. Loper. (Dwainc Smith photo) Embassy Building In Normal Use Havana - (UPD - The govern ment has taken no action so far to enforce its order na tionalizing the U.S. Embassy building here. Work at the embassy pro ceeded normally Wednesday, with people coming and going on routine errands as they would on any other day. Since the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in January, 1961, the embassy offices have been used by Swiss diplomats handling U.S. affairs in Cuba. Cuban officials asked the Swiss Wednesday to vacate the building. Informed sources said the Swiss Embassy pro tested both the nationaliza tion and the request that they leave, and for the time being they remained in possession ANY COLD NAME Black River Falls, Wis. -CPU - An unidentified postal worker knew exactly where to send a letter addressed to 'Frostbite Falls, Wis." A let ter postmarked at Johnstown, Pa., was quickly dispatched to Black River Falls, where the temperature dropped to 50 belowe zero last winter and gained nationwide notori ety for the town. I' IcMcInI ICtIj FcMtt Nl li Hf , I 1 1 , 1 I I 1 '''.' 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