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Burma's Dictator Ne Win, 52, must hate getting up in the morning. What he rises to face each day is a nation of 22 million people plagued by at least five separate rebellions, ranging from the Kachin tribesmen, who want autonomy, to the Red Flag Communists, who are so fanatical that they think even China's Mao Tse-tung is "too moderate." Burmese businessmen bitterly resent the nationalization of industry; peasants grumble at the collectivization of agriculture; Buddhist monks protest that government expropriation of the rich robs them of endowments. Ne Win's latest enemies...
...Xhosa tribesmen of Transkei, seeking a Prime Minister for South Africa's first "self-governing" Bantustan (TIME, Nov. 29), last week gave an overwhelming majority of their votes to Paramount Chief Victor Poto. But as it turned out, Poto did not get the job. Instead the office went to Chief Kaizer Matanzima, the candidate preferred by the South African government. Poto wants white men and white investment capital in the Transkei, while Matanzima, a black racist, supports the idea of an all-black state...
...throwing bigger units into battle. In the north at Dakrode, 100 guerrillas assaulted one of the area's strategic hamlets-now renamed "combat hamlets" by the Saigon regime to create a more aggressive image. The attackers blew up barbed-wire defenses and overran the village after 550 montagnard tribesmen defending it fought valiantly until their ammunition ran out, then fled. (They later returned.) Forcing captured tribesmen to carry 30 Communist dead and wounded, the guerrillas faded once again into the bush, leaving behind a trail of bloody bandages...
...roughshod. In the Maquiritare language of Venezuela, translators discovered, there is no word for "worthy." So in translating Mark 1:7, they changed one passage to read: "After me comes one who is greater than I. I cannot remove his sandals because he is greater than I." The Venezuelan tribesmen took the sentence literally, visualized Christ as a man of such giant stature that John could not remove his shoes...
...spent most of his adult years as a professional soldier in the French army, included his friend Maga in the interim government as Foreign Minister. He is trying hard to balance his government between the unions, which still howl for Maga's complete removal, and the northern Bariba tribesmen, who are on the warpath to win Maga's complete reinstatement. Though massive French aid helped the new nations in the area to achieve a measure of economic progress and political stability, Dahomey and the other former French colonies are now threatened with tribal and sectional wars that could...