Word: tribalization
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...bound to the West to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Communist East. Any idea of holding the African down permanently, as South Africa is trying to do, is absurd, says Cloete. Yet "the answer is not immediate freedom, which could mean black tyranny and tribal wars. It is an improved agriculture...
...visit to a jungle village in South Sudan, Salem unabashedly whipped off his pants and, clad only in underdrawers, joined a host of naked natives in a wild tribal dance. Delighted picture editors the world over promptly dubbed him "the dancing major," and British diplomats, who lost out in the Sudan, pointed to the picture as the kind of thing they would never stoop to do: colonies may be lost but never one's dignity...
Another Legion task force mopped up around Oued Zem. Under Colonel Fran-gois Boreill (who led the fine French battalion in Korea), 4,000 or more Legionnaires, supported by two tank companies, drew a tight steel net around the Smala tribal area. After two days of bitter fighting in the barren, rocky uplands, Boreill closed the net. Soon afterwards, he spotted a band of Berbers approaching his command post, waving white flags...
...time matching competitions, the powerful chiefs evolved a special blue chip: a sheet of copper valued at hundreds or even thousands of blankets. In one fiercely contested potlatch, the tribal chiefs ganged up to best an upstart brave who had grown rich trading with the whites. It took three coppers with a total value of 39,000 blankets to finally "flatten" the brave...
Quick Answer. Delegates filled hotels, hostels and private homes; 400 youths camped in tents just outside London. Blue-robed Nigerians with pagan tribal scars mingled with costumed Finns and with Indians in colored voile gowns. As usual, the U.S. sent the biggest delegation : 4,000 men and women, hung with cameras, the men wearing broad-brimmed hats, bright neckties and, occasionally, cowboy boots. Great Britain provided 1,600 delegates, Canada 500, Germany 300. Nine Russian Baptists showed up (Russian Baptists have been missing from alliance congresses since 1928), but there were no delegates from other Iron Curtain countries or from...