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Died. Mwamikazi Bujana Elisabeth Mwakamarongu, venerable regent of some 250,000 Neweshe Bashi tribesmen of the Congo's Kivu province; after a long illness; in Ngweshe, Kivu. Her age, according to her great-grandson, King Pierre Ndatabaye, "certainly more than 100, probably around...
...Though it has a king, a government and an army and can be found on a map, Laos does not really exist. Many of its estimated 2,000,000 people would be astonished to be called Laotians, since they know themselves to be Meo or Black Thai or Khalom tribesmen. It is a land without a railroad, a single paved highway or a newspaper. Its chief cash crop is opium...
Phoumi last week could point to a few hopeful military factors. The tough, anti-Red Meo tribesmen control the important Xiengkhouang-Vang Vieng road and force the Reds to supply several bases...
Private Regiment. The area was chosen with special care: the grasslands at the foot of Ouarsenis mountains, 100 miles west of Algiers. It is a region inhabited by some 30,000 Berber tribesmen who are ruled by their French-appointed bachaga (chief), Said Boualem, 55, a tall, gaunt landowner with the commanding face of a Sioux warrior. Boualem is an ex-major of the French army and was repeatedly decorated for gallantry in the Italian campaign of World War II. Best of all, he was a comrade-in-arms and old friend of ex-Colonel Jean Gardes, a top aide...
...rest of India. Though nominally part of the state of Assam, the rambling (31,000 sq. mi.) region is administered directly by the central government because Prime Minister Nehru wants to preserve its primeval aboriginal character. In some of N.E.F.A's valleys are nightmarish rain forests where animist tribesmen invoke among their deities a Dysentery God who, when angry, racks their guts with a quick but painful death...