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...spent one entire year on a State Department tour of Africa and the Far East "getting to the little villages where the big orchestras and ballet companies can't go." Surviving "the unspeakable pangs of dysentery," they traveled by Jeep, elephant, water buffalo, dugout canoe and bamboo raft, performed before a collective audience of half a million persons and collected hundreds of native songs and instruments...
...Catholic priests and brothers, 17 nuns, and a British accountant who was considered an American spy because he owned a pair of binoculars. On the night of Nov. 16, more than a week before the joint U.S.-Belgian rescue mission began, the Simbas puffed themselves into a fury on bamboo pipeloads of Indian hemp. Then they dragged the nuns out of the hotel, forced them to strip, and made them "dance" by shooting at their feet. Then the Simbas took their pleasure...
...Macapagal's departure for Washington, 500 students and union members carrying bamboo torches and placards reading "Ugly American" marched to Malacanang Palace, the Philippine White House. They noisily demanded abrogation of a U.S.-Philippine trade agreement that gives American interests parity in the ownership of Filipino land, resources and public utilities. But the agreement also grants the Philippines tariff advantages in its trade with the U.S., and Macapagal is wisely avoiding any battle on that score. When the demonstrators grew violent, presidential guards drove them back with rifle butts, and Macapagal admitted a delegation of student leaders to hear...
...later replace itself with a "Committee of Unification" made up of the three generals and representatives of the Buddhists, Catholics, and possibly of the students. Despite an appeal by the triumvirate "to love one another," Vietnamese continued to roam the wreckage-littered streets, setting upon one another with bricks, bamboo rods, lead pipes, meat cleavers, nail-studded clubs, chains, truncheons, Molotov cocktails. The companions of one dead Buddhist dipped their hands in his blood, smeared it on their faces as war paint. A Catholic youth lay in a first-aid room, a hatchet protruding from his head...
...days the five Cubans paddled north across the sea on a raft fashioned from truck-tire inner tubes, rope and bamboo poles. By the time a passing Florida yachtsman spotted them 35 miles off Grand Bahama island last week and took them aboard, the raft had disintegrated and the refugees were clinging to the inner tubes, half in, half out of the water. What sort of land is it that drives men to take such risks to escape? Last month Fidel Castro invited 30 U.S. newsmen to Cuba to witness the July 26 celebrations marking the eleventh anniversary...