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Article: Prince Souphanouvong Dies; Led Leftist Guerrillas in Laos
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 12, 1995
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Prince Souphanouvong, the "Red Prince" of Laos who fought with
Vietnamese and Lao guerrillas against the United States in Indochina
and later became his country's president, died of heart ailments Jan.
9, Laotian Radio reported. He was 86.
The radio service, monitored in Bangkok, said that Prince
Souphanouvong's death was a severe blow to the ruling Lao People's
Revolutionary Party and the people as a whole and that the government
had decreed five days of mourning.
The prince became president after the communist victory in
Indochina in 1975 and held the post until 1986, when he stepped down
because of ill health.
Prince Souphanouvong was known as the "Red Prince" after leading
the communist ...