Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under a new strategy disclosed last week, the Soviets have divided Afghanistan into seven sectors, each under a Soviet-led commando force. The new plan reportedly calls for the recruitment of highly paid Afghan tribesmen who are to act, in effect, as "enforcers" against the harboring of rebels in tribal villages. There are also signs that the Soviets may be preparing to starve out sympathetic villagers by destroying their crops...
...ideology or gradualism. Last month Tekere scathingly dismissed two top Anglican churchmen-one of whom had spoken against the shooting down of an Air Rhodesia airliner by guerrillas last year-as meddlers who "have no place with us." Even in public, he never hesitated to call his old tribal and personal antagonist Joshua Nkomo "useless and redundant...
...Tepee Town for only $3.98). The most sought-after cowhide moccasins, by Minnetonka of Minneapolis, cost less than $20 at most American stores but sell for $60 in Paris. (They will be available in four colors this fall.) On the other hand, ceremonial leather shirts copied from traditional tribal garb and laced together with abalone shells, deer teeth and ermine tails, are priced as high as $1,800 in the U.S. Cutter Bill Western World in Dallas sells diamond-beaded hatbands for $32,000 apiece and ermine-and-crocodile boots...
...Khama, 59, popular President of the southern African nation of Botswana since its independence in 1966; of cancer; in Gaborone, the capital. The hereditary chief of the Bamangwato, the dominant tribe among the Texas-size, cattle-herding country's 830,000 people, Khama was exiled to Britain by tribal elders in 1950 after his marriage to Ruth Williams, a white English secretary he met while studying law in London. He finally renounced his chieftaincy in order to return and to enter politics, winning election as Prime Minister in 1965 and as President the following year. While opposing the white...
...Pope John Paul II, including a peace pipe and beaded leather moccasins. But the purpose of their visit to Rome was to celebrate the beatification of Kateri Tekakwitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks," a 17th century Indian woman who converted to Christianity and clung to her faith resolutely, despite tribal torments, until her death...