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Fire, Burn. Even before formation of the Mid-Western province in 1963, Owegbe was active as a kind of Ku Klux Klan to protect backward Beni tribesmen against the political inroads of their more aggressive, better educated neighbors, the Yorubas and the Ibos. When the pushy Ibos captured the post of provincial prime minister in the traditional home of the Benis-Benin City-Owegbe leaders were humiliated and ordered a rampage of terror, filling Nigerian newspapers with stories of Owegbe beatings and intimidations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Power of Juju | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Sukarno's one alleged triumph−that he has united Indonesia's 103 million people−was deflated last week by news from South Celebes, where rightist Darul Islam rebels are fighting against the army. In Sukarno's newest acquisition, West Irian, Papuan tribesmen have also launched an insurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Down with the Beatles! | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...would not carry with it the stigma of humiliating defeat for Egypt. An expeditionary force of some 50,000 Egyptian troops was not able to do the job. Neither was a series of palavers between delegates of the unstable republican regime of Abdullah Sallal and those of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Yemen's deposed Imam Badr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: MIDDLE EAST Journey to Jedda | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...from the west and prevents the Reds from cutting South Viet Nam in half. The V.C. had carved an intricate web of trenches, tunnels and "spider holes" to within 300 yards of the outpost, which was manned by only twelve American Special Forces troops and some 400 Bahnar mountain tribesmen. Reports indicated that a Viet Cong regiment was in the area. Saigon's generals decided that Due Co could not be allowed to fall. Out of Pleiku, 40 miles to the northeast, rolled a three-mile-long column of South Vietnamese Rangers, marines, elite infantry and engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Matter of Mobility | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...education programs and antiguerrilla training that are among the SF's major responsibilities. Instead, they recruit pretty girls to lure Viet Cong officers to their bedrooms-to be captured, naked and panting, by the SF. They hire Cambodian bandits to ambush Viet Cong units in Cambodia, train Meo tribesmen to fight against the Communist Pathet Lao in neutral Laos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's War | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

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