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Of Uganda's dozen or so major tribes, none is poorer or more primitive than the Karamojong. Living on a 4,000-sq.-mi. stretch of sandy scrubland in the remote northeast, the 280,000 tribesmen know few tools other than their steel-bladed spears, live on little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Naked Repression | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

Sir: Unless you retract a statement in your article "Europe's American Tastes" [March 15], I shall be forced to challenge you to a duel at ten paces. My choice of weapons, asparagus spears. It is unthinkable that anyone, even wearing Coke-bottle lenses, could have the audacity to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1971 | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

During rebel attacks on Chittagong, Pakistani naval vessels shelled the port, setting fire to harbor installations. At Jessore, in the southwest, angry Bengalis were said to have hacked alleged government spies to death with staves and spears. Journalists at the Petrapole checkpoint on the Indian border found five bodies and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Pakistan: Round 1 To the West | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

The indistinct battle lines reflected the ethnic and cultural divisions that have beset Pakistan since its creation as a Moslem homeland when British India was partitioned in 1947. Two predominantly Moslem areas that used to be part of India became a new country, the two parts separated by 1,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Pakistan: Toppling Over the Brink | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

Staying in the air over Viet Nam was difficult enough in the days of the old H21 "Flying Bananas." Back then, in the early 1960s, one Viet Cong trick was to set up long spears and trip wires along the ground in such a way that they would be set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Killing Is Our Business and Business Is Good | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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