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...Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed everyone within spitting distance...
...stage an uprising among the Vietnamese. He quickly corralled the plotters, interrogated some of the 100 prisoners himself, declared that he had found documents linking them to Communist guerrillas in Laos. Last week, after Johnson left, Premier Sarit headed north in typical fashion for a good-will tour by Jeep through the villages, where he chatted with elders and inspected irrigation projects...
...second home of TIME Paris correspondent Edward Behr has been Algeria, which he has visited 45 times while logging a total of 14 months on the spot covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army during World...
...Communist pressure, that means he's not getting government protection. Why should he go to prison?" Dismayed to learn that Kien-hoa's 1,500 crack troops waited days for orders before going to the help of besieged villages. Thao led them into action himself in his Jeep. Where the roads ended, Thao and his men paddled off by canoe in silent search of the enemy. Thao set up a Communist-style intelligence network, paying peasants liberally for information on guerrilla moves...
...language and a stomach that could take the glutinous rice and fiery red peppers he was served when traveling about the back country. He shot craps with the governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages by plane, Jeep or muleback to show propaganda films about Communist terrorism. Filmed in Laos, the movies were accompanied by up-to-date versions of the traditional mohlam ballads (a kind of Laotian version of calypso) and were tremendously popular...