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...toms throbbed through Liberia's steaming jungle. Their message: a big iron bird had fallen from the sky-find it. Tribesmen left their villages, padded along remote trails, paddled through swamps; Liberian constabulary crisscrossed the bush. Above, skimming the treetops, rumbled 35 search planes...
Twenty-four hours later, tribesmen found the Great Republic smashed to bits near the top of a 1,500-foot hill, 45 miles north-northeast of Roberts Field. A chieftain reported the find to a Lutheran missionary who directed search parties to the scene. Of the plane's 40 passengers and crew, all were dead...
...while. The rice-rich country (which Red China would like to gobble up) has more than a dozen clashing political parties, at least two of which (the Stalinist White Flag Communists, the Trotskyite Red Flag Communists) are still in armed rebellion against the government. Besides, thousands of Karen tribesmen are waging guerrilla war against government forces. Legal opposition parties run the gamut from the frankly pro-Russian Workers & Peasants Party to the pro-British Burma Union Party, which advocates a return to the Commonwealth. Somewhere between stands Premier Thakin* Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Friendship League...
...Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman owns a steak tenderizer (imported from Manhattan's R. H. Macy) and a political machine (modeled on Manhattan's Tammany Hall). Both function smoothly. During his eight years of office, President Tubman has extended the vote to Liberia's women and the hinterland tribesmen, but he also got Liberia's constitution amended to permit the President to serve an unlimited number of four-year terms. Tubman's True Whig Party, representing the descendants of the 15,000 freed U.S. slaves who first settled the nation, has ruled over Liberia almost without interruption...
...Mujaji III, described by the late Jan Christian Smuts as "handsome and intelligent," refuses to relinquish her throne, even at the age of 80. For several months now, the lands of the Lovedu have been parched with drought, which tribesmen regard as a direct result of the queen's defiance of tradition. But despite many a strong hint from her subjects, the rain queen has announced, "I will not drink the poison cup. Such things are no longer done...