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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 9. 1962.

Do Troikas Ever Work?

Do Troikas Ever Work?

The settlement in Laos has been received with general rejoicing but anyone naive enough to consider the solution workable is in for a rude shock. The attempt to harness together the three contending power groups must Inevitably fail. For any of them to sincerely at-tempt to make the coalition work will mean a renunciation of its own claim to power. Neither the extreme Right or the extreme Left have yet demonstrated a sincere desire for anything less than absolute power. Thus Souvanna Phouma is left with the unenviable task of attempting to make the coalition work, whilst retaining enough power to control the politicial aspirations of the two extreme groups.

Val Maxwell.