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Being Practical. Notably absent from the peace conference was Guerrilla Chief Phizo, whose ill-clad, ill-fed, weary and malaria-ridden troops were reported reduced to a mere 1,000. The agreement with Nehru had been reached without their consent by tribal chieftains who were fed up with the war. and convinced that Phizo's headhunters are pretty poor rifle shots anyway. Many of the chiefs had also come to realize that Nehru would never grant complete independence to a frontier people so close to Red-occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept...
...diversified tribal unities. On hand to approve his plea were the King of Lagos, resplendent in purple robes and a helmet-shaped crown of gold beads; turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the flashy, U.S.-educated Ibo tribesman who had fancied himself rather than Balewa as the Federation's first Prime...
...religion sprang up from the remnants of the old, and throughout rural Viet Nam last week illiterate, black-clad peasants bolted their doors at sunset, murmured incantations to the lotus flower, and talked in fearful and guarded tones of the Devil King and his Flying Men. The Devil King struck first last month at a small village 100 miles west of Saigon. His men entered a village restaurant, cold-bloodedly executed 17 men, women and children; a Buddhist was beheaded while praying...
Next day when Diem's C-47 touched down at Bangkok's spick-and-span military airport, the President disembarked to review the waiting honor guard, clad instead in his national Vietnamese dress: blue silk mandarin gown and black Tonkinese turban. The mandarin gown reflected more than a mere impulsive presidential whim: it symbolized a complicated and many-faceted change that has come about in President Diem's political thinking in recent months...
Welcome the Day Shift. When the convention formally opened at Santa Ana race track in Manila's suburb of Makati, the delegates passed through turnstiles where they were shaken down by khaki-clad cops, standing beside signs that read: "Please Deposit Your Firearms and Deadly Weapons Here." Dutifully, 39 delegates deposited gats the first...