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...island of Mindanao, 650 miles south of Manila. There, scientists recently discovered a lost tribe of Stone Age human beings whose way of life has remained unchanged for aeons. Excited by their unique opportunity, Philippine anthropologists last week prepared for an expedition into the jungle to live with the tribesmen and investigate their customs before the primitive culture is contaminated or obliterated by encroaching civilization...
...supremely confident President Nguyen Van Thieu went through all the motions of campaigning last week, despite the fact that his name will be the only one on the ballot when South Viet Nam's voters go to the polls on Sunday. He sipped rice wine with Montagnard tribesmen in the Central Highlands, popped up in Pleiku for a "nonpolitical" medal-pinning ceremony, and went on radio to demand of the voters: "I want to know your clear-cut attitude; either you have confidence...
...seven primitive tribesmen from Western Papua were haled into a Port Moresby court where they were charged with improperly and indecently interfering with a corpse. A fellow villager had been killed in a family feud, and they had volunteered to dispose of the remains. Their method: to cut up the body, cook it in a well-thickened stew...
...Special Forces teams from South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos; secret forays into China from northern Laos by specially trained CIA teams (now reportedly halted); the formation, funding and training by the CIA of an irregular army of up to 15,000 Meo tribesmen; large-scale operations throughout Laos by Air America, the CIA's unofficial flag line in Asia; and the recruitment, training and payment of at least 4,800 Thai volunteers to fight in Laos...
Amin, who seized power from Apolo Milton Obote in a coup last January, personally toured the region to talk up trousers. Some tribesmen heeded his pleas, but a cholera epidemic broke out a few days later, confirming an old tribal suspicion that clothes only hide disease. So far, the only Karamojongs Big Daddy has succeeded in dressing up are the 120 tribesmen who were tried and convicted of rioting at Moroto. They have been sentenced to six months in jail -in prison garb...