Word: tribesmen
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...Pathet Lao. Yet only after Senator Stuart Symington's Foreign Relations Subcommittee looked into the matter, against the wishes of the State Department, did the American public learn in detail how U.S. aircraft based in Thailand were bombing northern Laos, the CIA was guiding the operations of Meo tribesmen, and the U.S. was providing millions in military assistance to Souvanna Phouma-all clear violations of the 1962 Geneva accords on Laotian neutrality...
There always have been antagonisms between the mountain tribesmen and the lowland peoples and they were exploited very effectively by the CIA, who offered them guns and told them they would protect them against the Lao or lowland people and also the North Vietnamese whom they're very afraid...
...90th Chemical Detachment claim that Orange has been sprayed by other units in the Americal Division as well as their own. The stated reason for spraying the crops-which all belong to Montagnard tribesmen -was that the Army suspects the harvest was being given to the Viet Cong. Knowledgeable observers point out that the traditional ethnic hatred between Montagnards and all other Vietnamese makes it unlikely they would voluntarily supply food to either side...
...last of the great ancient kingdoms of West Africa is the Ashanti, whose 2,000,000 tribesmen last week proudly anointed a new king, Nana Opoku Ware II. It was the first time in 35 years that the ceremony, perhaps the most magnificent tribal ritual in all Africa, had been conducted. TIME Correspondent James Wilde went to Kumasi in central Ghana for the fete and wrote this report...
...confused with the brass bracelets worn by some Viet Nam veterans. These are handed out by Montagnard tribesmen to visitors who have joined them on patrols, but carry no medical magic and are meant to symbolize blood brotherhood...