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Word: monkeyskin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truck and Jeep from the Congolese town of Aru just across the border, load up on food and liquor, then, after sleeping it off in a tin-roofed "refugee center," truck contentedly back. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who drove to Arua last week, found several bearded Simbas in monkeyskin caps gulping palm wine in the town marketplace. Local merchants reported that the rebels have been forced to route several Juba arms shipments through Arua instead of straight across the Congo-Sudan border to Aba. Reason: stepped-up activity by the Sudan's own rebels-who are anti-Arab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Imports of Trouble | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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