Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough assignment. Indeed, given the convictions of the South African leadership and the human rights concerns of the Carter Administration, a head-on collision was all but inevitable. Vorster remains firmly committed to apartheid and a policy of "separate development" for blacks, based on the creation of quasi-independent tribal homelands inside South Africa. Jimmy Carter is committed to progress toward majority rule not only in Rhodesia and Namibia (South West Africa) but in South Africa as well. Last year, when he was trying to achieve a Rhodesian settlement, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was prepared to settle for majority...
Catch the re-runs of the age of Aquarius, more commonly known as Hair, presented by the Dunster Drama Society. The love-rock tribal musical promises energetic performances, rousing musical numbers, and even some piquant social and political commentary. Yes, Virginia, there once was an anti-war movement led by politically committed students. At Dunster House...
...than the Guinness Book of Records. Its readers' questions and answer section tells you all about building and living in tepees with the notable caution. "The shape of the structure itself may affect your physical and mental condition and your lifestyle in general". Or, extra! Wicked Govt.-Appointed Hopi Tribal Council has Resolved to Turn the Hopi Homeland over to the Peabody Coal Co. for Strip Mining for $5 million and there are endangered butterflies and laetrile-smugglers (laetrile is a banned anti-cancer drug), and the Animal Bill of Rights which has received 2M. signatures in France. We learn...
...Katangese have raised the sharpest challenge yet to Mobutu. A Belgian-trained soldier and former journalist, Mobutu has managed to unify a nation with a bloody history of chaos and tribal war. Parceling out privileged positions and sinecures to leaders of Zaïre's 200 ethnic groups, Mobutu in return demanded and got almost feudal loyalty. High-living and profligate, he tried to burnish his image as a 20th century chief by such flamboyant stunts as the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Heavy-weights Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974, which lost the government $4.1 million...
...suit to assert a collective claim to the bed-and attendant water rights-of the Arkansas River. Of hundreds of controversies, however, most turn not on claims to land but on issues of land use, of rights to minerals and water, of fishing and hunting rights, of tribal sovereignty. Some involve prickly political questions that stem from the unique legal status that is supposed to exempt Indians from control or taxation by state and local governments. The Mescalero Apaches of New Mexico have won their claim to immunity from ordinary state licensing procedures in the sale of liquor on their...