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...South Viet Nam, the sun rises not blood red as on the coastal plains but molten white as it burns its way through the gray mists that linger in the valleys and shroud the jagged, jungled mountains. It is a land of long rains, chill winds and primitive Montagnard* tribesmen, who have coexisted comfortably with the elements for centuries. But the Montagnards have not been able to cope with the Viet Nam War. No matter how it ends or when, it will count the friendly, dark-skinned hill people among its most tragic victims. A cease-fire would reduce their...
...most vividly iconoclastic new words generally come from the G.I.s, and so, in Viet Nam, the grunts spoke of slants and slopes, of Charley (Viet Cong) and Yards (Montagnard tribesmen) and White Mice (white-uniformed local police). Where they were was "the boonies of Nam"; everything else was "the world." Officials spoke windily of "winning hearts and minds," but the G.I.s shortened that to WHAM. To the airmen, the jungle was Indian Country, where you might end up either in the Hanoi Hilton (prison camp) or Buying the Farm (dead...
...Ugandan army under Amin's command was in fact the biggest threat facing Ugandans last week. The army, now dominated by his own West Nile group of Moslem tribes, had already massacred thousands of Lango and Acholi tribesmen after Amin's overthrow of President Milton Obote in 1971. Since last month's brief battle with invading Ugandan exiles from Tanzania, the army has turned on the Baganda, the country's largest tribe. Military police have made wholesale arrests, including Benedicto Kiwanuka, the Chief Justice of Uganda who was also the Baganda's most revered leader...
...treatment of the two sides. But the effect of his book upon Western readers already mindful of the sufferings of Biafra is to arouse an equivalent sympathy for the plight of Federal Nigeria, faced with the secession of Biafra's hard-working and highly skilled Ibo tribesmen...
...contract" with the Burmese government: he keeps his turf clear of Communist insurgents, and the government allows him to deal in opium as he pleases. Lo has had no trouble in keeping up his end of the deal. He maintains a private army of some 5,000 local tribesmen and deserters from Chiang Kai-shek's old Kuomintang 93rd Independent Division...