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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (228)	4/20/1998 2:29:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Respond to of 12475

Well in a manner of speaking, depending on local custom, if its like here in the States she could claim to be Assamese. A blond haired blue eyed one though. She was born of Baptist missionary parents in 1949. She lived there for 4 years until the government requested all missionaries to leave the area due to political unrest I believe. So she left her birth village in 1953. They journeyed back to the US then settled in the Philippines where she grew up. But for the first four years of her life she lived and played in the hill country. They said an occasional tiger would come through the village at that time. Her parents journeyed back for a visit many years later, after much negotiation, planning and persuasion of the powers that be. Her mother described the last part of the journey as being in an armed military convoy. This was in the early 70s if I remember. It was a joyous return and visit for them, many old friends still there. It was from that trip that we received the beautiful and colorful tribal cloths. These were made of local materials and contain deep rich colors, lots of reds and blacks, woven on what must have been small hand looms. My ex-wife also visited once, I think. It was about two weeks before the US Gulf War hostilities as I remember. Don't recall much of the specifics though, except worrying a little as her flight path was from Frankfurt to New Delhi. I was active in US Reserves at the time and knew something of the situation with Iraq.