The effort included meetings among princes Souvanna Phouma, Boun Oum, and Souphanouvong in Zurich and Vientiane, and protracted diplomatic consultations in Vientiane, Siangkhoang, Rangoon, Moscow, Paris, and Geneva. All to no avail. Less than a year after the Geneva agreement and following a series of incidents in which one of Kong Le s closest aides was assassinated and a U.S. plane on a supply flight to Kong Le authorized by Souvanna Phouma was shot down, fighting broke out in the neutralist camp. An estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese remained in Laos, despite the stipulation that their government had signed at Geneva that withdrawal of all foreign troops be completed by October 7, 1963. Lao prime minister s protest to North Vietnam over kidnapping of Lao citizens.
Lao crisis enters critical phase.
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