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...Somali...
...Grocery Store on the potholed main drag of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. Italian Settler Passoni, an enterprising sort, was raffling off boxes of groceries. Suddenly, a news bulletin from neighboring Kenya blared from a radio in a bar next door. An instant later, the guttural twitter that is the Somali tongue became an ominous muttering, and the crowd of 500 was on the rampage. Stoning cars, the Somalis marched to the British embassy, touching off three days of shouting, window-smashing riots...
...happens, Kenya's northeast has long been a favorite squatting ground for nomadic Somali tribesmen, who herd their camels and goats back and forth across the Horn of Africa without heed to national borders. Fiercely independent, the illiterate Moslem tribesmen fight savagely among themselves for grazing land, for this is the possession they hold most dear. A proud people, tall, lithe' and fine-featured, the Somalis are Hamitic in origin, descended in part from 7th century Arabs who crossed into Africa from Yemen. Forever vain about their heritage, they are also accustomed to having their...
Spearing the Commissioner. No Somali saw it that way. Mobs surging through Mogadishu's heat (100° plus) had to be broken up by mounted police swinging long batons; before the disturbance was quelled, some 500 people were arrested. In Hargeisa, the onetime capital of British Somaliland, crowds stoned British homes and cars, attacked the British consulate. Presumably because of Britain's close ties to the U.S., newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Horace Torbert was stoned out of the town of Galcaio, his Land-Rover narrowly outdistancing a mob of 1,000 men, women and children. In Kenya itself...
...CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, welcoming Somali's Prime Minister Abdirascid Ali Scermarche, who arrived on a visit and brought a few unusual gifts-an ostrich-egg lamp, a foot-high, bottom-weighted "Devil Doll'' that teeters but never falls over, a monkey-fur rug, and a brass gong mounted between two elephant tusks...