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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many. It will require more than mere conviction to govern the area. The 800,000 Papuan tribesmen of West Irian may be the world's simplest people. They live near-naked in Stone Age savagery in high, roadless valleys surrounded by nameless, unmapped tropical forests. In some of their 150 dialects, counting goes no further than "one, two, many . . . " Their weapons are stone axes, 16-ft. spears and poisoned arrows. Cannibalism, headhunting and tribal warfare are common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: An Act Free of Choice | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...Brook Roadless Areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Best Sellers in the Square | 10/8/1964 | See Source »

...sees it, Souvanna's neutralist government represents the most palatable of several ugly alternatives. The U.S. has tried to defeat the Reds in Laos by arming and training General Phoumi's army-but Phoumi failed. The Pentagon remains reluctant to commit U.S. armed forces to a landlocked, roadless and rugged terrain for an endless guerrilla war against Communists from China and North Viet Nam. Souvanna may well suffer the fate of other non-Communist leaders who have tried to govern in conjunction with the Reds and have lost their countries to Communist subversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Shaky Troika | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

BHUTAN (pop. 700,000) is an autonomous Indian kingdom whose foreign affairs are administered by India. Red China chooses to ignore this arrangement, has offered economic aid to the Bhutanese directly. Primitive and virtually roadless, Bhutan was first opened up to the outside world in 1959; the country has only two doctors and about 20 pharmacists. India has sent a small military training mission into Bhutan to modernize its ragtag 10,000-man army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE HIMALAYAS | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Lords of Upheaval. Called Viotá and Sumapaz, the two Red enclaves of backlands Bolshevism in Colombia have been in existence for years, making trouble for democracy in Latin America long before anyone heard of Fidel Castro. The rugged, roadless terrain offers little hindrance to guerrilla movements, while effectively blunting any military reprisal or concerted government program of building and social reform that might dilute Communist influence on the peasantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Backlands Bolshevism | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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