Word: kinsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tone of his research is best expressed in the image of a befeathered savage dancer wearing sneakers. Without straining for irony, Gaisseau notes inching progress in New Guinea, where one happy warrior of the cannibalistic Kuku-Kuku tribe is flown away to face murder charges; his kinsmen on the ground wear human hands as talismans, smoke the bodies of their honored dead and lug them around like dolls...
...coordinates and finances the activities of some 16 separate "freedom fighter" organizations aimed at freeing the African nations still controlled by white minorities. Blasting the committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses, but not enough to make them abandon apartheid and white supremacy...
...Prince Mansour, is still around the palace, and his powers are largely ceremonial. The King's last personal armed force is being merged into the army. The King, whose cunning is legendary, may use his fortune, estimated at more than $100 million, to buy out his pro-Feisal kinsmen. The outlook was perhaps best forecast by an Arab journalist: "I see ahead a period of intrigue and suspicion, in which a passing word from a harem woman might take the sleep for nights from the eyes of important princes...
...Estes venture into which Clement and his kinsmen put some money involved buying up surplus barracks at the Air Force base near Blytheville, Ark., having the buildings chain-sawed into sections, and, after a bit of nailing
...politicians adopt the offspring of their constituents as godchildren. Top politicos like Macapagal and Garcia are compadres to hundreds of peasant families who eagerly give their services as bodyguards, precinct workers, fund raisers and propagandists as well as voters. In return, the politicians are expected to keep their adoptive kinsmen out of jail, find places for them on the national payroll. For the country as a whole, the compadre system usually means blood feuds and built-in graft...