In the process he has become Baan Borang's impresario, tour leader and economic development agency, collecting donations and rounding up professionals from around the world to take part in his vision by contributing their time and expertise.
If it does not, and if the grand tour leader cannot lay the blame on Mr Fox, he faces an uncomfortable choice: back down and negotiate a new agreement, return to the jungle and take up arms once more, or disappear into the obscurity from which he came.
At the start of Bush's European tour, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) criticized the president's handling of United States allies in a newspaper interview.
Howell, the European Tour Order of Merit leader, got off to a flying start at the Yalong Bay Golf Club on Hainan Island with a birdie at the first.
"If I win a stage or I'm the leader in this Tour, it could be that certain persons don't like it, " he says.
Spain's Adrian Palomares is the new leader of the Tour of Britain after pipping Tom Stubbe to the line during the fourth stage between Rotherham and Bradford.
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The 34-year-old Dufner, who has never won on the PGA Tour, is a surprise leader having missed five of his last six cuts, but 25-year-old rookie Bradley has been a revelation in his first season, winning the prestigious Byron Nelson Classic earlier this year.
"Obviously this is a very unfortunate situation, but I have a top medical team around me which will provide the best treatment to get me back to the competition, " the 24-year-old Race to Dubai money leader told the European Tour Web site.
Last year, when Kvitova won Wimbledon, it seemed that a true leader had finally emerged on the tour, someone who would take charge and set the standard for everyone else.
"What the public have to understand is that F1 is a bit like the Tour de France where there is a team leader and all the other guys are there to help him, " said Coulthard.
On Thursday, Tory leader William Hague visited Lockerbie on a tour of some of the worst affected areas in Britain.
This was scotched late last month when Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas's spiritual leader, returned to Gaza from his triumphant tour round Arab capitals.
Their leader Charles Kennedy is on a whistle-stop tour of 11 British cities by Friday.
By the time the FBU leader came to the end of his strike-tour of picket lines and mass rallies, his tone was notably more conciliatory.
Stories of derelict controllers keep piling up, even as the head of the FAA and the leader of the controllers' union started a cross-country tour to spread the gospel of professionalism to the rank and file.
Admirers testify to her gifts as a negotiator, but her career before Brussels consisted of a tour of Whitehall departments at under-secretary level and a stint as leader of the House of Lords: hardly the stuff of Metternich.
The leader of the pro-unionist Better Together campaign has embarked on a "listening" tour of Scotland ahead of the 2014 independence referendum.
Trevor Immelman, co-leader overnight with Adam Scott, had moved two strokes clear at the turn chasing a first Tour win but faded over the closing holes.
To entice managers to sign contracts, Palm is cosponsoring the professional golfers' tour, escorting honchos on golf junkets and lending them handhelds to use on the course to check out the leader board.
Joint leader with England's Nick Dougherty and Spaniard Garrido with a round to play, the 2008 Challenge Tour graduate did not drop a stroke in shooting a four- under-par 67.
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