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...started upward. Monsoons slowed them and they finally quit, their supplies exhausted. In the spring of 1954 the Japanese returned. They had doubled their supplies but this time their opposition was tougher. Outside Sama, angry villagers threatened them with a barrage of yak dung and stones. Manaslu, the village headman explained, was Sama's "sacred mountain," and by trying to climb it, the Japanese had angered Sama's gods. That winter, as punishment, the gods had sent an avalanche to level a 300-year-old monastery and had killed three lamas. Then had come a drought...
...Malaya, cut through the wire and attacked with machine guns. Quickly subduing the police, they forced the Home Guard commander to deliver up Kea's 35-gun armory, then looted the village of all transportable food. Just as they were about to leave, they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After he did, they didn't say anything. Chou looked at them inquiringly. They slit his throat." By this act (standard for suspected...
Wildly cheered by flag-waving crowds, a lean, leathery man in an olive-green army uniform rode triumphantly into Buenos Aires one sunny day last week to take over as President of Argentina. The new headman was General Eduardo Lonardi (see box), leader of the rebellion that brought Juan Perón tumbling down...
...last week Jaunswar women seemed to be doing pretty well on their own account. Against a backdrop of Himalayan mountains, a pretty, 16-year-old girl was busily spinning wool while her five husbands and the village headman pleaded with her not to become a dhyanty. Said she: "I married only Gulab Singh. I will have nothing to do with his four brothers." Said the headman: "My child, you know that by our custom, when you marry one man, you marry his brothers also." Retorted the 16-year-old: "Gulab Singh or none. If I cannot have only one husband...
...whole tribe," explains doughty British Explorer "Mike" Hedges. "On the other hand, I obviously could not accept." What to do in this social dilemma? Mike turned to Lady ";Mabs" Richmond Brown, a venturesome British aristocrat who had accompanied him to the Central American wilderness. Lady Mabs, Mike told the headman of the tribe, was already his bride, so that he could not "by the laws of my gods" oblige the Indians. The emissaries regretfully took the maiden away, and the intrepid explorer kept his sense of propriety as well as his pants...