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...Despite the U.S.'s best efforts, the main highway out of Vientiane is still paved only as far as the tennis court of a former defense minister, eight miles out of town. There is one railroad station but no railroad. Many of the primitive Meo and Black Thai tribesmen in the back country are not even aware that a nation called Laos exists...
...Katanga. Early in the week Mobutu flew desperately across the Congo to seek support from Secessionist Moise Tshombe, boss of Katanga province. But Tshombe rebuffed him; he had troubles of his own in what he now calls "Republic of Katanga.'' In the northern Katanga bush, hostile Baluba tribesmen were burning villages and killing dozens of Tshombe loyalists. Until the U.N. neutralized much of Tshombe's army by cutting off fuel supplies and refusing it transport, Katanga troops killed scores in punitive raids on Baluba villages. Last week the U.N. moved hundreds of troops into isolated northern...
Hurled Heads. The leaping apparition was Shamyl the Avar. He was one of two fighting men to escape the ruins of the aoul. Two years later, in 1834, he was elected Imam of Dhagestan-the absolute spiritual and temporal ruler of most of the tribesmen in the Caucasus. He fired his subjects with a fanatic brand of Mohammedanism, and his dedicated Murids, or holy warriors, kept the armies of Czar Nicholas at bay for the next 25 years. As the years passed and the Czar's frustration continued, Shamyl became a European hero. Russophobic Britons forgave the raider...
...wild tribesmen Shamyl ruled lived by the shashka (saber) and kindjal (long dagger). "They sabre each other in the way of friendship," wrote the Russian Poet Lermontov, who, like Pushkin, served in the Caucasus and died in a duel there...
...mosque for three days, then announced: "It is Allah's will that the first person who spoke to me of submission should be punished by a hundred lashes! And this first person is my mother!" He flogged the old lady five times; then, glaring contemptuously at the tribesmen, accepted the rest of her punishment himself...