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Magic Amulets. Many of the rebels are hawk-nosed Toubou bandits from the mountains of Tibesti, where, legend has it, the wind is born. Others are wild-haired southern and eastern Islamic warriors bent on holy war, who carry amulets to ward off bullets. Though some of them wear only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: The Last Beau Geste | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

IN East Africa, that magical land of the Masai, the Mau Mau and the Macombers, February is the middle of summer-and summer is safari season. To many Americans, the word safari (Swahili for journey) still conjures up a vision of Stewart Granger beating bravely through the bush, trailed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Travel: Camera with Cross Hairs | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

Rather than the more familiar mythological subjects of Greek art, the panels depict what appear to be scenes from the lives, deaths and funeral rites of the occupants of the tombs. One, for instance, shows a helmeted warrior seated on a powerful black horse and grasping a banner. He is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasure at Paestum | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Outside the entrance to the MTA, the Men's Auxiliary of the Women's Liberation Front sought signatures in support of its proposed march to the Sigmund Freud Obelisk in Vienna, Austria on January 10, 1970. Rod Weiner, representing a local cucumber processor, offered Kosher dill spears, slim jim beef...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

Many of the Communists' civilian victims died singly or in small groups, as the Viet Cong sought to exterminate effective local leaders loyal to the government in Saigon. In 1960, Father Hoang Ngoc Minh, a popular Kontum parish priest, was ambushed by Viet Cong who drove bamboo spears through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On the Other Side: Terror as Policy | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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