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	Boun Oum
		Boun Oum (also Prince Boun Oum or Prince Boun Oum Nachampassack) son of King Ratsadanay, was the heir to the defunct throne of Champassack.
		A political conservative sympathetic to French control of Laos, he commanded a force of 15,000 that fought Japanese occupiers and the Lao Issara[?] in the south of Laos.
		He retired from politics to pursue business interests from his base in Pakxe and Champassack but continued to be a major power broker until his exile in 1975, the year the communists came to power.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Boun_Oum.html (113 words)

	Laos travel and tourism information, hotels and tours in Laos
		"With an unmarried mother as queen," Prince Boun Oum na Champasak, the last of the kingdom's royal line, once said.
		Boun Oum, who died in French exile in 1980, may have griped about his family's downfall (though he was not a direct descendent of Nang Pao), but it did not stop him from using his remaining royal privileges to loot the nearby Wat Phu.
		The magnificent Angkorian temple complex was recently made a UNESCO heritage site and is considered one of the finest Angkor-inspired edifices outside of Cambodia.
	www.visit-mekong.com /laos/champassack.htm (406 words)

	Boun Oum Airways - a brief history
		The airline was ostensibly owned by Prince Boun Oum of Laos and was created with the intention of flying missions in Laos with Asian crews (as opposed to Caucasian crews) to create plausible deniability in the event of a shoot-down.
		BOA’s initial pilot, Capt. Boonrat Comintra was ex-Royal Thai Air Force and was certified in both aircraft by personnel from each of Bird and Son and AAM.
		By mid-1967 it would be fully integrated with the CASI and cease to officially exist.
	www.air-america.net /boun-hist.htm (505 words)

	History of South East Asia
		The United States and the West recognised a new military-controlled Vientiane government, technically under another prince, Boun Oum, as Prime Minister.
		Despite American intrigue in Lao up to this point, the incoming United States President in January 1961, John Kennedy, concluded that a neutral Lao was desirable.
		In June the three Lao princes, Boun Oum, Souvanna Phouma, and Souphanouvong agreed to a second attempt at coalition government.
	www.aseanfocus.com /publications/history_laos.html (4778 words)

	Laos: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The agreement broke down in 1959, and armed conflict began anew.
		In 1960, the struggle became three-way as Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, controlling the bulk of the royal army, set up in the south a pro-Western revolutionary government headed by Prince Boun Oum.
		General Phoumi took Vientiane in December, driving Souvanna Phouma into exile in Cambodia.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107702.html (1074 words)

	Amazon.com: "Boun Oum": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In the south, Prince Boun Oum, the son of Prince Youi of Champassak, had 15,000 men under his command.122 At the end of November, however, their...
		Prince Boun Oum accepted subordination to Luang Prabang in return for the title of Inspector General of the Kingdom, with precedence after the...
		Governments On September 10, 1960, General Phoumi Nosavan announced the formation of a "Revolutionary Committee" headed by fellow southerner Prince Boun Oum.
	amazon.com /phrase/Boun-Oum (441 words)

	History of Laos
		The Geneva Conference of July 1954 granted full independence to Laos but did not settle the issue of who would rule.
		Prince Souvanna Phouma, a neutralist, operated from Vientiane; in the south, right-wing, pro-US Prince Boun Oum of Champassak dominated the Pakse area.
		In the far north, Prince Souphanouvong led the leftist resistance movement, the Pathet Lao, drawing support from North Vietnam.
	www.visit-laos.com /sabbaidee/history.htm (1891 words)

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