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...another 2,500 American troops debarked to join the 4,000-man brigade of the 4th Infantry Division in the Central Highlands. That brought the total U.S. force in South Viet Nam to 317,500-and for the first time in the war, the Americans outnumbered the South Vietna mese regular army (there are 388,000 more South Vietnamese under arms as militia and police). With more fighting like that at the Rockpile in the offing, every man will be needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Rockpile | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...Shoa, survives as the one potent aboriginal state in all Africa. There human slavery still flourishes. There the most trifling jubilation provides an excuse for tearing out the entrails of a living cow, that they may be gorged raw by old and young, washed down with brimming cups of mese (mead) or bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Ethiopian Protest | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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