Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neto faces his biggest threat in the south, where Savimbi commands an effective force of 5,000 men. Still a hero to the area's dominant Ovimbundu people, the bearded, beret-wearing UNITA leader completed a 500-mile trek through the south-on foot-urging his tribal brothers to resist the Luanda government. Rallying to his cause, the Ovimbundu have set up underground cells throughout southern Angola...
...acquire this pass (redeemable weekdays at 1 or 2 p.m.), go to the Museum of Science where, through January 23, over 300 watercolors by Olemara and Verda Peters depict the Tribal Peoples and Costumes of Southern Africa, including displays of tribal artifacts...
...selectmen, we read with interest your article concerning the town of Mashpee [Nov. 15] and the suit brought by the Wampanoag tribal council...
What is the rationale for such sadistic nonsense? Says Psychologist Gary Margolis, director of counseling at Vermont's Middlebury College: "It's a tragic vestige of ancient tribal customs in which painful initiation rites were extremely important. To prove one's masculinity you had to experience pain. The more pain, the closer the male bond became." Adds Willard Broom, Illinois' associate dean of campus services and programs: "It's all a physical dependence process. I guess it's sort of the way the Army does basic training...
...troubles began five years ago when Mobutu, an autocrat who always carries a traditional tribal chieftain's stick decorated with carved figures of birds and snakes, decreed an ambitious industrialization program. Instead of investing in agriculture-which would have increased food supplies and given many more Zaïrians jobs-Mobutu put $1 billion, much of it borrowed, into projects aimed at a vast expansion of copper exports. He gambled that increasing demand would keep copper prices rising-and he lost. During the world recession, copper prices plunged by 62%, and Zaïre's copper revenues shrank...