Badjaos of Tunkalan Build Lipalipa Boats and Live by Sea
In Tunkalan off Tawi Tawi island, Badjaos or sea gypsies live in stilted homes over shallow Sulu waters. Elders carve a new vinta boat, a three month project, while a nearby dry ground hosts a palm frond roofed basketball court built by Catholic missionaries. The community, numbering about 400, blends sea lore with mixed religious respect for Bible and Koran.
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Tunkalan
Philippines
Borneo
Tankalan
Tawi Tawi Island
Pueblo Crisis Deepens as North Korea Holds Pueblo Crew
The 82 U S Navy officers and crew remain imprisoned in North Korea for eight months amid attempts to secure their release. Diplomatic efforts falter as North Korea demands a formal U S apology and the Czech crisis strains East West relations. Blackmail threats by Kim Il Sung persist with no release date in sight.
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Washington
U.S
Pueblo
North Korea
Czechoslovakia
Kim Il- Sung
South Korea
Kim Dong-jo
Kim
Brown
United States
Homeland Guard aims to defend Korea against infiltrators
In Kapyong South Korea the Homeland Guard mobilizes 5200 troops with 394 rifles as youths train with spears and wooden rifles. The program seeks village militia ready to act against North Korean infiltrators, inspired by Israeli defense models.
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Kapyong
South Korea
Son Jae Kun
New Homeland Guard
Homeland Guard
Park Chung Hee
Duvalier Pardons Son-in-Law After Year of Exile
President Francois Duvalier pardons his son-in-law Col. Max Dominique who was sentenced to death in absentia last September for plotting against the regime. Dominique may return from exile in Europe as part of a broader commutation of 10 other rebels.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Max Dominique
Duvalier
Dominique
Europe
Marie-Denise
Bewildered Jews Leave Poland Amid 1968 Emigration Wave
Jonathan Randal reports from Warsaw that a sizable portion of Poland's Jewish community plans to emigrate by year end 1968. Officials acknowledge anti Semitic witch hunts, purges of Jewish officials, and a campaign that erased Zionist references from the party press. Many survivors fear never being real Poles, as most seek new lives in the United States France Britain Canada or other Western nations.
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Warsaw
Poland
Communist Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Mieczyslaw Moczar
Gomulka
Israel
United States
France
Britain
Canada
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John Nance
Associated Press
Sulu Sea
Philippine Chain
Winthrop Brown
State Department
Moscow
Panmunjom
Sea of Japan
Regis Marion Kennedy
LINN
MAR
Jefferson Washington
Jewel
Columbia
William Beecher
New York Times News Service
Park
Seoul
Jonathan Randal
New York News Service
Olivetti Underwood
Funk and Wagnalls
Olivetti
Underwood
Merveaux Business Machines
Third Avenue
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