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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
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These troops stiffen the
Communist Pathet Lao garri
sons. 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.
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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
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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.
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