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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Woman Doctor in Viet Nam" tells of Dr. Pat Smith's war against disease among the Montagnard tribesmen in the central highlands. Repeat...
Mwami Mwambutsa IV, the Watutsi ruler of the kingdom of Burundi, did not seem like a man who would easily part with his throne. In fact, when the rival Bahutu tribesmen attempted to overthrow him last October, the Mwami and his men struck back so ruthlessly that at least 86 Bahutus were executed, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament. Last week it seemed that the Mwami had lost his throne just the same. Not to the Bahutus. To his own son, Prince Charles Ndizeye...
...imminent implementation of what could be Aref's biggest achievement in office. Over nationwide television the day before, Iraqi Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz announced a twelve-point peace program for ending the government's bloody, five-year war with the 1,000,000 fiercely independent Kurdish tribesmen living in Iraq's mountainous northeast. For years the Kurds have been demanding a measure of autonomy from the Baghdad government, and Razzak realized that a settlement might well make Aref and Bazzaz so popular as to be almost invincible...
...such business when some other lines were hesitant, its wholly owned subsidiary, Continental Air Services, has built a considerable enterprise in South Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, where it is second in activity only to Air America (TIME, June 3). Its motley of 42 planes airlifts rice to Meo tribesmen beleaguered by Red rebels and might just be flying arms and men for the CIA and the Pentagon. Says Salinger dryly: "In Viet Nam we fly personnel and supplies around the country. Some of the landing strips aren't very far from the Viet Cong operations...
...classic heroes, in the words of U.C.L.A.'s late Historian Dixon Wecter, "were taller by a head than any of their tribesmen, could cut iron with their swords, throw the bar farther or wind the horn louder than their fellows-Achilles and Ulysses, Siegfried and Roland, Beowulf and Richard the Lionhearted." Their latter-day American equivalents might be Douglas MacArthur, reconquering the Pacific, true to his vow, "I shall return," and Ike Eisenhower, commanding the massed D-day armies or winning his sweeping 1952 election victory. But it is difficult to imagine Beowulf getting only ten nominating votes...