Word: hyenas
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...BEGGAR DRESSED IN TATTERS stalks on stage. The spotlight shines bleakly on him; the rest of the stage is dark. Sneering at the audience--suspicious, perhaps scornful--he spits and suddenly doubles over with a hyena-like laugh. He straightens abruptly and with a sweeping arm, signals to cut the light. His laughter echoes eerily through the darkness after he has left the stage. Ten seconds have elapsed...
There are only a few distractions that can divert the Bushmen from a guerrilla's trail. An entire unit will come to a halt to collect and devour the honey from a wild-bee comb in a tree, for instance. And the presence of a hyena anywhere in the vicinity is likely to bring on inexplicable and uncontrollable fits of derisive laughter from the Bushmen. Otherwise, they have won the respect of their South African officers. "They've taught me what survival means," says one. "For all their small stature, they can put some of our big stocky...