Word: tribalization
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...force in 1925 from Hussein, the Sherif of Mecca and Abdullah's father; in theory, a theocracy; in fact, an absolute monarchy. Member of the Arab League. Ibn Saud's main income: $100 million yearly in royalties for oil concessions to Aramco. Army: 15,000, plus tribal irregulars. At Dhahran: important U.S. air base...
...treatment of Tri U's tribal customs and cruelties is competent, though overdrawn. It gives the sisters a hard time, while taking too tolerant a view of the system's true culprits: the parents who let them grow up that...
...been 15 months since Tshekedi, prosperous cattle rancher and former tribal Regent, was kicked out of the Bamangwato Reserve in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, following into exile his nephew, handsome, Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwatos (TIME, March...
...official explanation for their banishment: their squabbling over Seretse's marriage to a blonde London typist endangered tribal unity. The real reason: to placate South Africa's rabid, racist Prime Minister Daniel Malan, who is ready to seize any excuse to take over Bechuanaland, which borders his country to the north...
...fruit of the mescal cactus (Lophophora williamsii), which grows abundantly in Mexico and in parts of Texas. Dried, the fruits look like buttons of half-dollar size, brown with a pale center. For 15 years the peyote habit has spread. Alarmed as early as 1940, the Navajo Tribal Council outlawed peyote, but the ban could not be enforced. The peyote button had been adopted as a Communion host by the Native American Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wary of a "religious freedom" issue, refused to interfere...