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...until the Communists began concentrating troops in the Central Highlands was there another battle of Starlight's scope. Worried that their supply routes might be in danger, 6,000 Viet Minh and Viet Cong on Oct. 19 pounced on a Special Forces camp manned by 400 montagnard tribesmen and twelve U.S. advisers at Plei Me, near where the Ho Chi Minh trail snakes out of Laos and Cambodia into South Viet Nam. But for 600 sorties that littered...
...Yemeni tribesmen in the small and remote village of Haradh last week lopped off the heads of two oxen as sacrifices for peace. Yet the 55 delegates gathered for truce talks on a nearby plain seemed no closer to settling Yemen's three-year civil war than they were when they first convened three weeks ago. Reported an Arab newsman: "It is the dialogue of the deaf. Both sides talk, but neither side listens...
...conference to end the bloody (100,000 battle deaths) fighting between insurgent Republicans and Royalist mountain tribesmen was actually convened by the principal backers of the two factions. The Republicans are supported by 70,000 Egyptian troops; the Royalist forces of deposed Imam Badr are backed by arms and money from Saudi Arabia and Britain. In September after the war turned into a stalemate, Saudi Arabian King Feisal and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser negotiated an uneasy ceasefire. Nasser's expeditionary force costs $500,000 a day to maintain; both he and Feisal seem more eager than the Yemenis...
...created the Sudan," goes another. Versions differ almost as diametrically about just what is going on today in the three swampy, southernmost provinces of Africa's largest country. For the past six. months, the region has been the scene of bloody uprisings among its 4,000,000 Negro tribesmen against their Arab rulers from the North. The Sudan's Prime Minister, moderate Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, announced in Khartoum last week that "the situation is much improved. The rebels will be crushed by the end of this year." From their hideout in neighboring Uganda, rebel leaders proclaimed that "apart...
...Arabs command some towns in Equatoria and take reprisals among Negro tribesmen at large either by shooting them, flogging them, tying them up with bags of red pepper around their eyes, or burning their huts. Some 100,000 refugees have crossed the border into Uganda, and more may move soon. Prime Minister Mahgoub says his government is still committed to "a peaceful solution within the framework of a unified Sudan"; Any a Nya leaders in Kampala interpret this to mean a new government offensive as soon as the rainy season ends...