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TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at Pop Buell, a retired Indiana farmer who has spent the past five years in Laos helping refugee tribesmen settle in new villages...
...require a 17½-mile perimeter to keep it out of the range of 81-mm. mortars; a full U.S. division would be required for the job. Lacking such manpower, U.S. troops are improvising. At Quinhon's airstrip, officers and enlisted men alike have begun hiring rugged Mung tribesmen for $5 a month-paid out of their own pockets-for sentry duty. Such an arrangement is hardly S.O.P. for the Army, but in South Viet Nam, as one Defense Department official puts it, "there is no book-nothing fits...
...right mind would think for a minute that the U.S. embassy was involved in the assassination. Some say the Chinese killed the Premier. I say no." With that the government arrested as accomplices former Premier Albin Nyamoya, a vehement Watutsi irredentist, and 23 other Watutsi tribesmen...
Last week the truce game was over. Tribesmen supporting the Imam poured out of their mountain fastness to launch a successful attack on Razeh, near the Saudi Arabian border. The jubilant royalists claimed to have killed, wounded and captured more than a thousand Egyptians and republicans. At the same time, two tribes in the mountains 20 miles from San'a declared their support for the royalists and drove back an Egyptian force sent to subdue them...
...shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless flood victims. In one remote mountain vil lage, their performance ended up in a woolly hootenanny with the loinclothed montagnard tribesmen chanting and playing along on gongs and flute. Faced by antagonistic students ready to argue politics, Addiss and Crofut always retreated to song. "As soon as they realized that all we were selling was music," explains Addiss, "they sang along with us and stayed up half the night teaching...