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Though Africa's hot-eyed nationalists wear European suits and talk knowingly of constitutional provisions and voting qualifications, they are well aware that many African tribesmen are still more impressed with black magic than political oratory. Last week an official pamphlet issued by the Southern Rhodesian government reported that some black leaders, unable to fire up their loyal constituents in the cause of black nationalism, have tried to fan antiwhite feeling by more primitive means...
Whoever finally wins control of Laos will have a prime headache from a band of wiry mountain tribesmen who wear their hair in a tangled bun, love opium and hate law, order and progress. The Meos are the best fighters in Laos, and during the course of the civil war, they have traded in their crossbows and poisoned arrows for shiny new weapons donated by both the Communists and the U.S. "Give one of those little guys a rifle in the morning," says a U.S. military adviser, "and when he comes back that night, he'll be able...
White Mother. But the primitive Bamangwato, whatever the British said, persisted in recognizing Seretse as leader-especially after his homecoming was greeted by a pula, or downpour, greatest good omen in thirsty Bechuanaland. The tribesmen revered their white queen as Mihuma-Kghadi, "Mother of Us All." And surprisingly, Ruth made fast friends among Bechuanaland's 3,000 Europeans, who only a few years ago could not have conceived of condoning a black-white marriage. Seretse stayed busy looking after his herds of 25,000 cattle and his growing family (three boys and one girl). Last week, as Britain started...
...forestry degree from the University of the South in 1956, then "just took off" to thumb and hike his way through much of Africa, Asia and Europe for four years. He used a beard, a bit of French and a cast-iron stomach to impress African tribesmen, figures he already knows the secret of getting along in Tanganyika (which he visited): "They accept you if you sit down and eat with them." Fond of Africans and their wildlife, he would like to make the corps a career...
...hope did not last long. Even before Kennedy spoke, Russian-supplied guns opened up on the small Laotian village of Padong, high on a 6,000-ft. ridge in Communist-held territory, but manned by two holdout battalions of royal soldiers, most of them untrained Meo tribesmen. The barrage lasted all day and all night, and at dawn the defenders fled, leaving the village to the Communists...