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...brother, former Defense Minister Ngon Sananikone, to New York to put Laos' case before U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Peking promptly huffed that "serious consequences" would follow if the U.N. sent observers to Laos, and held secret conferences in Peking with North Viet Nam Boss Ho Chi Minh. Moscow's Pravda blamed all the trouble on the U.S., and said that the Laotian government is pushing the country to "the abyss of civil war" by a policy of "terror and savage reprisals against the patriotic forces...
...leaders have been away from Peking, hashing over their domestic difficulties at a secret conclave in the provinces. (Best guess as to their meeting place: the northwestern Chinese city of Sian, which fortnight ago received an otherwise inexplicable visit from North Viet Nam's goat-bearded Ho Chi Minh.) Last week, as if to make up for lost time, Red China's Foreign Ministry burst out with implied threats reminiscent of those that preceded Mao's intervention in the Korean...
...trip to the U.S.-unless, as some British diplomats speculate, it was Mao's way of reminding Khrushchev that Red China does not want any thaw in U.S.-Russian relations. The U.S. State Department, however, implicitly accused Moscow of complicity in the Laos invasion (after all, Ho Chi Minh had just been in Moscow...
...middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into morphine and heroin, as well as smokable opium. Smugglers then take possession, hoping for the vast profits to be gained from selling the narcotics...
...salute boomed out over Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport, Communist North Viet Nam's frail, wisp-bearded President Ho Chi Minh shuffled up the ramp into an Indonesian Airlines Convair, emerged with his guest of honor, Indonesia's President Sukarno. Burbled Ho, in the halting English he had learned years ago as a cook's helper in London's Carlton Hotel: "The Vietnamese people feel as if they were clasping in their arms 88 million heroic Indonesian people." Replied Sukarno, also in English: "I promise you, in the name of the Indonesian people, to support...