Word: moro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around. When all that is done, drums begin to roll, and a plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation of the sun on earth, and he rules through a court more rigid in its ritual than that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Each week, after the nobles have abased themselves before him, the Moro Naba heads for a splendidly caparisoned stallion. But just...
...Died. Moro Naba ("Master of the Earth"), 53, sword-waving, plume-wearing emperor of the warlike French West African Mossi tribe (some 1,700 members), whose government council seated both a minister of war and of defeat (on the grounds that victory needs no diplomatic skill but defeat does), and whose tribal tradition demanded that he titularly declare war on the neighboring Soussou tribe every Wednesday morning and allow himself to be "persuaded" by tribal elders to postpone the expedition; after a short illness; in Ouagadougou, French West Africa...
...plane and ship, Philippines Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay hurried south from Manila last week to a rendezvous 600 yards off the shore of Jolo Island, where the storied swashbucklers of the Philippines, the Moros, were on the rampage. Magsaysay had a secret date with one of the toughest Moros of all-clever, poker-faced Bandit Leader Kamlon. Kamlon, leader of the most formidable of the scores of Moro bands that terrorize Jolo, had agreed to surrender...
...waists sagging with an assortment of bolos, barongs, krises and daggers.Their youngsters darted happily across the sand with knives at their sides, and their womenfolk stood near in the holiday splendor of pink, yellow, and apple-green clothes. Among them was Kamlon's faithful wife -some of the Moro leaders have as many as 80, but he is content with one. Kamlon, a peaceful farmer who had become something of a hero for killing Japanese during World War II, turned to banditry as a postwar vocation...
Outboards & Outriggers. On the same day another important bandit leader, Ladrima Asmawil, surrendered on similar terms. It was a showy beginning for Magsaysay's campaign; but not an ending. Kamlon formally surrendered once before, in 1948, but was soon back to his old plundering tricks. Some 50 other Moro bands still roam the southern islands and piratically ply the Sulu Sea. They are armed with 8,000 to 10,000 firearms salvaged from the war years...