Word: beni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fire, Burn. Even before formation of the Mid-Western province in 1963, Owegbe was active as a kind of Ku Klux Klan to protect backward Beni tribesmen against the political inroads of their more aggressive, better educated neighbors, the Yorubas and the Ibos. When the pushy Ibos captured the post of provincial prime minister in the traditional home of the Benis-Benin City-Owegbe leaders were humiliated and ordered a rampage of terror, filling Nigerian newspapers with stories of Owegbe beatings and intimidations...
Last week the drive suddenly grew into a major offensive. Along the Uganda border, a government column shook the rebel hold on the northeastern Congo by recapturing the towns of Beni and Lubero. In the west, another force rolled unopposed from Boende all the way to Ikela, a vital road junction 185 miles from Stanleyville. But the main force came from the south. There, led by a Belgian colonel and 250 mercenaries, the 2,000-man 5th Mechanized Brigade clanked out of its staging area at Kongolo one morning, rumbled 250 miles in four days, conquered the rebel communications center...
Thanks to Beni Montresor, a sumptuous array of Oriental costumes dazzles the eye in scene after scene until the final mourning conclave at Kukachin's catafalque, where all are imposingly clothed in a uniform white (for white rather than black is the funeral color in China...
...this had little of "the pleasure of sweetness" that Menotti intended. A month of rehearsals under the sure hand of Thomas Schippers, excellent performances by Peters, Meredith and London, some last-minute opera-doctoring by Menotti, sets and costumes by Beni Montresor that looked like a world perceived inside a crystal Easter egg-nothing could rescue the Savage from its basic banality...
...Nail. The village itself was destroyed years ago by French bombers, and Amoura's 2,500 people inhabit caves. They have no cattle and live mostly on vegetables, supplemented by grass. Amoura had never seen a doctor until last month when a U.S. physician arrived from Algiers' Beni-Messous hospital, 170 miles away. One villager, who claims to be 105 years old, grumbled that "since the day I was born there has never been any hope, and I don't expect any for my children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren." But the government, with the help of various...