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...fury. In the Northern capital of Kaduna, raging mobs of Moslems armed with iron bars and broken bottles surged through the streets shouting anti-Ibo slogans. They killed at least 30 of the Ibo "aliens" from the east. In Kano, a swarm of Northerners marched out of the mud walls of the old city and stormed toward the airport, seeking Ibo blood. At the site of the huge Kainji Dam on the Niger, six Ibo bodies were scattered in the dirt, and at least 50 more Ibos were badly injured. In such Northern towns as Jos and Samaru, Zaria...
...West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose palaces are made of mud and whose law is adamantine...
...return to Africa, Seretse and Ruth have proved to be more than mere celebrities: Sere tse's moderate, anti-Communist Dorn-krag party won last year's elections handily over the rabid black-nationalist party of Phillip Matante; Ruth's relief work in the kraals and mud huts of the natives has won her the affectionate title of Mwa Rona (Our Mother...
...Governor was away. The plane took longer than expected to get to Port Stanley. And at the last moment, somebody remembered that there was no airstrip anywhere in the islands. So the terrified pilot had to do his best in the mud of a seldom used race track. When the shaken conspirators emerged from the plane, they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of curious islanders, none of whom spoke enough Spanish to understand that they had been conquered by the Argentines...
...rainy Saturday in the East, and a few shining faces, as well as football fields, turned into mud...