Word: phouma
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Gromyko found L.B.J. racing through a schedule that even by Lyndon's standards was frenetic. He was boning up for his Asian tour, politicking for Democrats, discussing Viet Nam with Laos' Prince Souvanna Phouma and Britain's Foreign Secretary George Brown...
Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist Premier of Laos, is a sophisticated fellow who was educated in Paris. He was in the U.S. last week to advise President Johnson on Asian policy and to discuss with Dean Rusk the problems of his own divided kingdom. Not once, however, did he mention the problem that matters most, because Washington, with all its marbled wisdom, just would not have understood. A dragon threatens to defeat him in the January elections...
...eggs are under guard in the headquarters of General Kong Le, commander of Souvanna Phouma's neutralist army. Kong Le got them from a peasant, who dug them up near the neutralist base two months ago. True enough, they did not really look like a dragon's eggs. They were hard-shelled and white, instead of being soft-shelled and mottled, as dragons' eggs in Laos usually are. But there was no mistaking them for the real thing: no sooner had the peasant taken them home than he fell into a delirium and was visited...
...peasant fled in terror to Kong Le, who sent Souvanna Phouma a telegram warning of impending disaster. Souvanna, who does not believe in dragons, shrugged it away. Even when the Mekong River started to rise, he attributed it simply to the annual monsoon rains. But the river kept on rising, to a 40-year high, which put the lower sections of the city 'deep under swirling brown water. Suddenly, Parisian education or no, the prince changed his mind: he could be blamed for the disaster unless he followed the dragon's instructions. He called on Kong...
Prince Souvanna Phouma, premier of Laos, will be an official guest of Harvard today. His tentative schedule calls for a tour of the University at noon; lunch at the home of John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; a visit to Widener Library and the Fogg Museum; a talk with George P. Baker, dean of the Business School; and dinner at Quincy House, with a speech there afterwards...