Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the union, accused the mine owners and the government of provoking the violence. The police blamed the disturbances on rival tribal factions and union troublemakers. In Washington the State Department last week issued a statement expressing regret at the deaths and injuries, "especially since they apparently occurred after a legal strike by black mine workers was successfully resolved...
Then there are the crocodiles. The country's ruler built Yamoussourko his tribal village, into a resort city with broad boulevards and posh hotels. He built a huge palace so he could live amid the town's splendor. Then he put a pool full of crocodiles into a pond in the palace's front yard--crocodiles being the clan's totem. Amid the marble facades and the fountains, they are a reminder of tribal power and tribal superstition...
...aborigines' success gives new heart to American Indians, who for years have been pressing state governments to hand over ancestral bones and tribal artifacts, many of which are gathering dust in museum basements. "We believe you should not disturb the dead," says Sioux Indian Maria Pearson of Marne, Iowa, a leader of her tribe's efforts to reclaim bones. To date, Native Americans have had only limited success. In 1981 Yurok Indians in California persuaded the state to return seven ancestral skeletons, which were then reburied. Iowa and Minnesota have passed laws requiring that archaeologists consult with Native...
...time known as the "Pearl of Africa," Uganda has been beset by tribal rivalries ever since it won its independence from Britain in 1962. The once powerful and privileged Baganda tribe in the south has chafed under a central government and army largely controlled by Langi and Acholi tribesmen from the north. The discontent has given rise to a ragtag insurgent movement that has tried to disrupt Obote's efforts to reassert control. The government has taken brutal countermeasures. Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams...
...great American waits are often democratic enough, like traffic jams. Some of the great waits have been collective, tribal-waiting for the release of the American hostages in Iran, for example. But waiting often makes class distinctions. One of the more depressing things about being poor in America is the endless waiting it entails: waiting for medical care at clinics or in emergency rooms, waiting in welfare or unemployment lines...