1.
MV PREMIER OUT OF CAR, INTO PLANE (3 SHOTS).
0.12

2.
MV GEN. AMKHA, MINISTER PENG AND I.C.C. MEMBERS INTO PLANE (3 SHOTS).
0.27

3.
SV (INSIDE PLANE): PRINCE PHOUMA AND JOHN BRIDE, CANADIAN I.C.C. MEMBER.
0.31

4.
CU MINISTER PENG.
0.35

5.
MV (F/G) RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR AFFANSIEV.
0.38

6.
SV GEN. DEWAN (INDIAN I.C.C. MEMBER).
0.40

7.
MV PLAIN OF JARS - PRINCE OUT OF PLANE, GEN. KONG LE MEETS HIM.
0.45

8.
MV PRINCE AND KONG LE INSPECT HONOUR GUARDS (3 SHOTS).
1.04



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Background: PRINCE SOUVANNA PHOUMA, PRIME MINISTER OF LAOS, LAST WEEKEND LET VIENTIANE FOR TALKS AT SAM NEUA WITH HIS HALF-BROTHER, PRINCE SOUPHANOUVONG, LEADER OF THE PATHET LAO. THE PRINCE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY THE SECURITY MINISTER, MR. PENG PONG SAVAN, THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR, MR. AFFANSIEV, AND MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONTROL COMMISSION.

THE TALKS, WHICH WERE TO PROVE SUCCESSFUL, CONCERNED THE ROYAL CAPITAL OF LUANG PRABANG, AT PRESENT HELD BY RIGHT-WING TROOPS UNDER GENERAL PHOUMI NOSOVAN. THE TWO PRINCES AGREED THE CITY SHOULD BE NEUTRALISED AND THE GOVERNMENT PROVISIONALLY SET UP THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

ON HIS WAY TO THE TALKS, THE PRIME MINISTER STOPPED ON THE PLAIN OF JARS. THERE HE WAS MET BY GENERAL KONG LE, COMMANDER OF THE NEUTRALIST FORCES. AND, BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE PATHET LAO STRONGHOLD AT SAM NEUA, PRINCE SOUVANNA PHOUMA INSPECTED SOME OF THE TROOPS.