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...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...
Barbed Wire & Bren Guns. Before the new pacification program began, many a shifta tended his herd by day and turned terrorist at night. He was hard to catch because he kept constantly on the move. Now thousands of Somalis have been shunted into manyat-ta (protected villages), a safe distance from the Somalia border. Such tribes as the Turkanas and the Boran, which have been nomadic for centuries, have been settled along with them in rows of dome-shaped huts that are protected from terrorists by barbed wire and Kenyan troops armed with Bren guns. At the same time, with...
...five months training for the assault, marched down to a beach on the Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total...
Changes are unlikely. The second biggest crowd in Cotton Bowl history, 78.087 strong, was on hand - hoping to see the hometown Cowboys avenge their narrow 34-27 defeat bv Green Bay in last year's National Football League playoff. What they saw was a Packer defense that kept Dallas' highly touted offense from scoring a touchdown - the first time that had happened in almost two years. The Packers crushed the Cowboys...
...tireless traveler and telephoner who at his peak managed 75,000 air miles a year and $300,000 worth of telephone bills, he also kept in almost daily contact with Edgar in California, made trips to the mainland to keep an eye on his holdings. He returned ill from his last trip in June, was taken off the airplane in an ambulance, died of what was described as circulatory ailments. He fell short by 15 years of a final ambition to live...