Word: tribalization
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...Imam of Yemen is a scraggly-bearded old man with a taste for women, at least five known diseases including syphilis, and an incredible durability. At 70, he has survived innumerable attempts on his life by his Yemeni tribal enemies, makes it a rule to behead any would-be assassin he can catch. When his own brother tried to overthrow him in 1955, the Imam did not let family feelings interfere with justice, ordered his execution...
...interested in your review of our present economic soothsayers. I suspect that all societies move in a spiral. They come around to the same point on a vertical line, but on a slightly higher plane. Just as the tribal chief has his witch doctors for ritual consultation, so an Eisenhower has his Burns and our chief of state now has a Heller. J. L. MARSHALL Dallas...
...conferees at Madagascar (now officially the Malagasy Republic) called for division of the Congo into autonomous states along tribal lines-which was what most Congolese wanted all the time...
World's Polecat. Nonwhites reacted delightedly to what they saw as a crushing Verwoerd defeat. On trains and buses carrying them from their "locations" to jobs in Johannesburg, Africans cried to each other. "Marvelous!" "Wonderful!" In house arrest at Groutville, 35 miles from Durban. Tribal Chieftain Albert Luthuli was "overjoyed" to know that "the Commonwealth stands for emancipation of all people everywhere, and especially in a former British colony." An exultant black told a rally, "South Africa has been publicly declared the polecat of the world...
...nations and the outside world will be under control of the central government, headed by pro-Western President Joseph Kasavubu. All that remained' to be worked out was the hardest part: the details and boundary lines for the loosely joined "Confederation of Congo States.'' So many tribal leaders popped up demanding local autonomy that the number of self-declared "states"' jumped to twelve last week (see map), may go as high...