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...most formidable fighting men are the aboriginal tribesmen whom the French called montagnards -hill people. Deadly hunters with crossbows and poisoned arrows, the more than 500,000 montagnards live in the vast "high plateau" that extends across one-third of the country. They are darker and tougher than the lowland Vietnamese, who consider the montagnards racially inferior, and scornfully refer to them as moi, or baboons. To protect them from land-grabbing lowlanders, French colonial administrators in effect made the central highlands a tribal reservation. When the French pulled out in 1954, lowlanders once again drove the montagnards ever deeper...
Filling In the Sea. To get the land it needs for its growing industries and shipping facilities, Rotterdam has relentlessly expanded into the North Sea, will fill in and raise 12,000 acres of lowland to create the Europoort. It needs all the room it can get. Gulf is building a new refinery in the Europoort, Tidewater Oil is moving in, and Britain's big Imperial Chemical Industries has already started a petrochemical complex. The port is building a new grain harbor whose 420-meter jetty will be the world's biggest. Last week, contracts were signed...
...character has remained constant for thousands of years. Many Kurds are tall, fair-skinned and blue-eyed. Of life they ask little more than flocks of broad-tailed sheep, a fine horse, a rifle with sufficient cartridge bandoleers, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For generations, the lowland Arab has been terrorized by the mountain Kurd. An Arab proverb says. "There are three plagues in the world: the rat. the locust and the Kurd." The Kurds reply. "A camel is not an animal, and an Arab is not a human being...
...delta because they often are impossible to distinguish from peaceful peasants. On the other hand, U.S. Special Service troops-"Sneaky Petes"-have made dramatic progress in the north by winning over and training the dark-skinned, aboriginal montagnards. Though they have for centuries been victimized by the lowland Vietnamese, who contemptuously call them Moi (savages), 150,000 montagnards now belong to an aggressive, native force. Help for Bananas. Militarily, the decisive factor in the war to date has been the introduction of some 170 U.S.-piloted helicopter transports, which give the government's troops the advantages of surprise...
...hear something of the people's feelings, TIME Correspondent Jerry Rose went on a three-week tour of the farms and villages, from the canal-laced Mekong delta to the lowland jungles of Darlac to the sagebrush plains of Pleiku. His report...