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France, which ruled Chad in colonial times, is taking the lead for its Western allies in the desert war, while the U.S. is sending weaponry. Over the years Chad (pop. 5.2 million) has suffered from a variety of tribal and political conflicts directed against the government in N'Djamena, which Paris has always backed. At the same time, a force of some 8,000 Libyan troops has been fighting in the north alongside the Chadian rebels...
Olebogeng, 25, is going home to Bophuthatswana, one of the tribal homelands created by South Africa in which a total of 3 million blacks have been resettled over the past 20 years. Of the 450,000 blacks who toil in South Africa's gold mines, 163,000 come from the impoverished homelands, where work is scarce and the pay pitiful. An additional 195,000 come from the neighboring countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland, where jobs are equally rare. Leaving their families behind, the miners spend most of the year living in cramped dormitories and working for wages that...
American Indian women are more than "beautiful Mazola maidens in buckskin," and are slowly but surely returning to positions of leadership in tribal government, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation told students yesterday...
Mankiller said she also proved herself to the leaders of Oklahoma's five-nation tribal confederation, who at first refused to speak to her--"maybe they thought I was there to get them coffee." She became president of the coalition in 1985. "They may not love me, but at least they respect me," she said...
Mankiller said she hopes to sponsor a conference on the changing role of Indian women, with an emphasis on increasing their power in tribal administration...