Word: lowlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What made Dr. Smith's work especially tough was the nature of the people she wanted to help. These were the mountaineers whom the French politely called Montagnards, a people apart from the lowland Vietnamese who sneer at them as moi (savages). In any language they are rebellious, superstitious, troublesome and riddled with diseases. Traveling by Land Rover, the big-boned, blue-eyed doctor sat around the fire in 200-odd Montagnard villages, becoming fluent in their principal dialect, sipping their raw rice wine and occasionally, as a good guest should, eating a native delicacy...
Next week Mrs. Gandhi undertakes another mission of personal diplomacy -this time with the Mizos, a fiercely proud tribe of 260,000 hill people in Eastern India who resent being governed by lowland Assamese and have been showing their displeasure by blocking roads, raiding towns, and attacking Indian Army patrols. Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, promised the Mizos a "Scottish solution," which would grant them a measure of local autonomy. Indira is expected to renew the offer...
Into the Hills. French colonial policy kept the highland Montagnards and lowland Vietnamese apart. Tribal courts were allowed to judge Montagnard morals and property disputes, while Paris encouraged the teaching of tribal languages-and French-in the highland schools. Montagnard troops fought in separate units under French officers, just as the Gurkhas and Rajputs did in Britain's Indian army...
Berkeley Geography Professor James Parsons and Graduate Student William Bowen report in the Geographical Review that the area once may have supported as many as 80,000 people, a vastly greater aboriginal population than has ever before been attributed to such an American tropical lowland. The discovery, they write, "opens a Pandora's box of questions relating to cultural origins." To which Parsons adds, "The discovery might even have implications of transpacific migration...
...Apostle of Burma." Born in Massachusetts, he spent 37 years in Burma-including 17 months in prison, part of the time in shackles, during the country's 1824-26 war with Britain. It was Judson who first translated the Bible into Burmese. Relatively unsuccessful in converting the lowland Buddhists, missionaries worked mostly among Burma's predominantly animist hill tribes. Today there are about 600,000 Christians in a population of 24 million, half of them Baptists...