Word: somalis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Years ago, Wakamba tribesmen poached in Tsavo, using arrows tipped with poison. Now Somali gangs, including many former soldiers, spray whole families of elephants with automatic-weapon fire. Not all Tsavo's poachers have been outsiders to the park. Some who are paid to protect the elephants -- wardens and rangers -- are also suspect. The evidence: Woodley and others have extracted .303-cal. bullets from carcasses. "The only people who use .303s are the rangers," he says. Numerous carcasses have been found near the rangers' headquarters. And when the park's patrol plane is grounded for inspection, the poachers quickly appear...
...Fifty Somali poachers armed with automatic weapons came nosing around the rhino refuge at Lewa Downs. "But we put out the message that if they came in, a few of them would have to die along with us," says Anna Merz. Under the driver's seat in her car, she carries a spike-headed club. She is not licensed to carry a gun, but she employs guards with old Enfield rifles to patrol her fenced-in 7,500-acre refuge, where approximately 16 rhinos live...
...regional conflicts. The region's problems have their roots in the legacy of colonialism. The principal problem has been with Somalia, which seeks to expand its frontiers at the expense not only of Ethiopia but of other countries too. My meeting with Somali President Siad Barre last January was undertaken at our initiative. Although one cannot expect to wipe away such long-standing problems in one stroke, the beginning has not been without hope...
...popularity. Blues are shy, retiring and fond of winter. The Siamese came to the ancient royal family of Siam from somewhere else. No one knows where. This most neurotic, intelligent and wonderfully expressive feline made its U.S. debut with Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1870s. The spirited, assertive Somali is a long-haired Abyssinian with agouti coloring-each hair is individually striped with brown or black. With its habit of pacing back and forth, it often resembles a miniature mountain lion...
Nixon believes that ever since the end of World War II, the U.S. has been engaged in an undeclared Third World War with the Soviet Union, "and we are losing it." The Soviets are relying on a grand strategy to undermine the West. He quotes Leonid Brezhnev telling Somali President Siad Barre: "Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends-the energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the mineral treasure house of central and southern Africa...