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How is a cattle raid carried out? "We come at dusk to the Kuria village," David said, "and make a lot of noise. There is a big fight, with spears, with bows and arrows. I have lost friends in raids, and think I have killed six or seven Kuria, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

One afternoon in the Loita Hills, there were three Masai warriors, called ilmurran, sitting in the shade beside a dung-walled hut. Their hair was long and greased with fat. They were barefoot and wore only the shuka, a bright- patterned piece of cloth, like a tablecloth, draped as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Finally, Roby was whistled for a technical foul, but by the other referee, Barry Spears, who was standing over 40 feet away, under the Dartmouth basket.

Author: By Vadim Nikitine, | Title: Men Cagers Lost in a Big Green Haze | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

Faced with that prospect, the Soviets would have no incentive to reduce their offensive forces. Quite the contrary, they would have every reason to increase their arsenal of nuclear spears. In order to maintain their own concept of deterrence, they must be confident of their ability to penetrate and overwhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Compromise May Yet Be Possible | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Even so, Asinamali!, for example, has been under constant threat. Apparently its angry art -- including a dead-on description of fire and bloodshed in a township attack -- too closely shadows life. One night, at a performance outside Durban, two busloads of counterrevolutionary blacks, armed with guns, spears and bush knives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cries of the Silenced | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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