Word: headmen
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...course; the present ruler, John Clunies-Ross, a fifth-generation descendant of the islands' original settler, forbade the Australian administrator to set foot on Home Island, which he considers his private domain. Canberra's comfortable ignorance was jolted three years ago when a group of Malay headmen on Christmas Island, where the overpopulation from the Cocos was resettled after World War II, told Australian officials that their friends and relatives in the Cocos were like "birds in a cage." The Cocos Islanders had written letters saying that they were not allowed to leave the islands even to visit...
...Senate with black representation but a permanent white majority, and a House of Assembly of 66 members to start. Of those, 50 will be elected by Rhodesia's 264,700 whites, eight by the dominant Matabele and Mashona tribes. The remaining eight will be elected by chiefs and headmen, who are in the government's pay. Africans are eventually to be given up to 50 seats as their income tax contributions rise. That will be a long time coming, since the Africans, with an average annual income of $403 (compared with $3,959 for the whites), at present...
...between Saigon and Danang, it is fighting what the Pentagon calls "the intermediate war." That is the layer of the war that lies between the glamorous big-unit battles and the paddy-level process of pacification, and combines a little of both. Its aim: to root the Viet Cong headmen, tax collectors and policemen out of the Binh Dinh villages that they have so long owned...
...territory from Britain as part of its in dependence package in 1963, and ever since, the Somalis have trained and equipped the terrorists. Like a small-scale Viet Cong, the shifta have am bushed army patrols, sown vast networks of road mines, and abducted and tortured village headmen. Their raiders have killed at least 645 civilians for not cooperating with them. But lately the Kenyan government has been successfully striking back-largely by forcing the nomadic tribes to settle down where they can be kept under scrutiny...
...different spheres, ranging from taxation to school construction. They will be able to spend up to $425 on their own; larger sums must be discussed with province chiefs or Saigon. As the next step, 4,487 hamlets (subdivisions of villages) will elect hamlet chiefs-the traditional and revered headmen of Vietnamese rural life...