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Egal, a portly, fast-talking merchant's son who was educated in Britain, has called a halt to the guerrilla war that Somali tribesmen have waged for years over disputed land with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. He has dismissed 3,000 troops from his 11,000-man army and put the rest to work part-time clearing land and building roads. He has asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with...
...well" against the guerrillas, he ordered reinforcements sent to the besieged province. >In Thailand, where a Communist insurgency is raging in the northeast, new trouble came from rebel Meo tribes men in the remote hills of northwest ern Nan province. Though only 100 to 200 strong, the Communist-led tribesmen have consistently bushwacked government patrols, killing more than 30 men. Last week in nearby Chiang Rai province, another Meo band shot down a government helicopter. The increased guerrilla activity may provide the power holder in Thailand's military regime, General Praphas Charusathien, with an excuse for postponing elections...
...tribesmen in the secessionist state of Biafra are proving as adept at the business of defending their homeland as they have always been at trade and commerce. That is the impression brought back last week by Western newsmen who flew into the Biafran city of Port Harcourt in a darkened plane to get their first look at Nigeria's rebellious state. Though Biafra hired a Hollywood public relations man to organize the trip, TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, who went along, learned enough on his own by moving around the country, talking with Biafrans and Europeans and interviewing Biafra...
...fans, there was a cartoon drawing of Donald Duck, Superman and Foxy Fox representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion that slowly turned into a growling Lyndon Johnson...
...therefore I am," to "I want, therefore I am." And why not? Rich, landed and titled in a country where rural life still turned on the relationship of serf to master, Tolstoy could indulge his appetites without fear of rebuke. As a 22-year-old volunteer, he fought rebel tribesmen in the Caucasus, wenched, gambled, and tossed off cocktails made of vodka, gunpowder and congealed blood. But he also kept a list of puritanical Rules of Life, which he usually updated during the tormented periods of guilt that almost always followed his revels. Even his searing self-rebuke often seemed...