Word: tafarian
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...first only amused last October when a self-anointed Negro holy man, the Rev. Claudius Henry, R.B. (for "Repairer of the Breach") stirred an estimated 20,000 bearded cultists into a back-to-Africa frenzy. No one paid much attention, even when Henry's ''Ras Tafarians"* pranced about holding aloft an empty platter they swore would hold Premier Norman Manley's head if he blocked their way. In April, when raiding police found a cache of firearms and cement-packed conch shells (obviously intended as missiles) in a Ras Tafarian church, Jamaican authorities decided that...
Focus of the fighting was no longer Africa. Instead the new goal is to convert Jamaica itself into a Ras Tafarian-run island republic. The leaders include Henry's son Reynold and ten U.S. Negroes from Brooklyn, some of them ex-G.I.s. Police deported some of the boys from Brooklyn when they turned up for Henry's back-to-Africa rallies last October. They got in again three weeks ago under assumed names, went underground in the remote Red Hills region seven miles northwest of Kingston, and began breaking out smuggled weapons...
...Jamaican cops, West India Regiment troops and British soldiers of the Hampshires-was sent into action with aircraft, police dogs mortar and rocket crews. Manley pleaded with Jamaican hill-dwellers who knew the fugitives' whereabouts to cooperate in tracking them down, but for fear of Ras Tafarian reprisal, the answer was silence...
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