Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were committed to the Red border area-the bulk of the army, and many of its best units, being kept on guard duty in Kashmir watching the Pakistanis. A strictly volunteer army, with the men serving five-year terms, it drew its troops largely from the warrior races of the north-Jats, Sikhs, Gurkhas, Dogras, Garhwalis. Over the past century, the Indian army has fought from France to China, and has usually fought excellently, whether pitted against Pathan guerrillas, Nazi panzer grenadiers or Japanese suicide squads. In the 1947-48 war in Kashmir, the Indians were fighting a British-trained...
...heavily industrialized state in India. The vastly unpopular Krishna Menon, fired as Defense Minister two weeks ago. sent a plaintive message to Chavan, "Such services as you ask of me as a private citizen are always at your disposal.'' Chavan. who is a member of the Kshatriya warrior caste, spoke like a fighting man in warning Indians not to count (as Nehru does) on Russia's help against Red China. Said Chavan bluntly: "A Communist country never gives up violence or abjures the use of force...
...also unstable, since its 6,845,000 people are riven by tribal, religious, economic and linguistic differences. There are no fewer than four separate Bantu kingdoms on the shores of Lake Victoria, which henceforth must try to make common cause, not only among themselves, but with the Nilotic warrior tribes and the turbulent Hamitic nomads to the north and east...
...good to us now. We might lay it face downward and use it as part of the floor." ∙ ∙ ∙ Raptly gazing at herself on screen, Brigitte Bardot, 27, liked what she saw almost as much as the Paris critics. Her latest flick, Le Repos du Guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), directed by ex-Husband Roger Vadim, was lavishly lauded as her best bedtime story to date. To celebrate, she and her constant consort, Actor Sami Frey, 27, buzzed off to a Right Bank bistro to nuzzle the night away, touching off a spate of speculation...
...tribe practices the cult of the severed head. Young boys entering warrior-hood spend an initiation night in the men's communal hut cradling a freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the same general territory where 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was lost last year, wear skulls dangling from their necks as magic charms against evil, and they tuck skulls under their heads as pillows at night. Despite the archly ominous narration of the sound track, the headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their...