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...battered down the doors, sacked the offices, and tried to pry off a coat of arms because, as one student cried, "It's made of Katanga copper!" After an hour, the U.N.'s Congo Chief Robert Gardiner arrived and scattered the mob. All the while, a jeep-load of Adoula's cops sat chuckling near by, making no move to stop the pillage...
...Soldier to soldier, an Indian commander told him: "We are hanging by our eyelashes." Emergency living conditions in Tezpur were primitive. "I slept in a tent, and one night a sacred cow ate my socks." reported Behr. After badgering authorities, he was permitted to visit the front lines. In Jeep and truck, the journey took 18 hours through nearly impenetrable jungles and over narrow, rutted mountain paths up to 13,000 ft. high. Says Behr: "No devilish imagination could ever plan any such testing ground for troops or transport...
While the Indians worked to build up a new defense line at Walong and in the lofty Se Pass, reinforcements were hurried to Assam. The effort to bring up men and supplies from the plains was backbreaking. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr made the trip over a Jeep path that was like a roller coaster 70 miles long and nearly three miles high. He reports: "The Jeep path begins at Tezpur, amid groves of banana and banyan trees, then climbs steeply upward through forests of oak and pine to a 10,000-ft. summit. Here the path plunges dizzily downward...
Malek Abedi, 32, lived in the provincial capital of Shiraz with his wife and an eight-year-old son. While he was being driven home in a Jeep with two other land-reform officials, a band of 15 or 20 masked, armed horsemen stopped the car near town and ordered the occupants to get out. "Abedi was the first one out." recalled the driver, "and they immediately cut him down with shotgun and rifle fire." Without harming the other two officials, the killers fled...
...headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army must climb up rocky Jeep paths and through heavily forested hills before reaching the mountain rampart. In this region of howling blizzards, avalanches and thin air, even Jeeps have to be fitted with superchargers, and tanks and trucks are useless because of terrible roads...