Word: spearing
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...eyes of all Africa were on Nyasaland last week, but Kenya had its own special reason for feeling the tension. Back in the news was the dreaded name of Jomo Kenyatta, "Burning Spear," the idol of the Mau Mau-and the man who put him there was the very same witness who helped put him in prison back...
...quickly degenerated from a political brawl to old-fashioned warfare. Throughout the native quarters of Bacongo and Poto-Poto, Balali tribesmen, loyal to the abbé, and the M'Boshi went after each other with everything from broken bottles to the deadly assagai-the short spear used by Chaka, the "Black Napoleon," to conquer his 19th century Zulu empire. At first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks...
...Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta was driven off through ranks of wailing women, but no spear-brandishing warriors appeared in his defense...
After repeated assurances that his mark on the ballot would neither give his enemies a hold over him by witchcraft nor make his wives sterile, the clan leader thrust his spear shaft into the ground, strode into the mud-and-wattle hut and voted. Among the fertile coffee plantations on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, lounge-suited leaders of the progressive Chagga tribe queued up at polling stations alongside white planters in khaki shorts and Asian shopkeepers in dhotis...
...officer with the job of welding marines, paratroops, Navymen into a spear-point of U.S. diplomacy in one of the U.S.'s weirdest-ever military missions: the Navy's four-star Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr., 60. CINCNELM, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; CINCSPECOMME, Commander in Chief, Specified Command, Middle East. Said he: "One might think it would be frustrating to a military man to have such a role-lacking vigorous military action-but I do not think so. The U.S. responded to a request for assistance from the legal government of Lebanon...