Word: tribalized
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What seemed certain was that the casualties had been heavy--12,000 killed, according to some diplomats on the scene. By week's end it appeared that rebel forces were gradually gaining the upper hand. But with tribal reinforcements pouring into the capital from the hinterlands, the fighting was by no means over...
...significance of the struggle between the Marxist factions, which has both ideological and tribal overtones, is equally murky. Former President Ismail is a Moscow-line ideologue who caused endless mischief for his more conservative Arab neighbors. He was succeeded in 1980 by Muhammad, a pragmatist who sought closer ties with neighboring North Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia...
...time, Muhammad was trying to build diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union, a long-term aim of the Kremlin's foreign policy. Western diplomats tended to believe that Moscow had felt comfortable with him and was dismayed at the speed with which South Yemen dissolved into tribal warfare...
Levine said department members are still discussing the possibility of creating two additional semester-long courses, one on the art of tribal societies and another on the art and architecture of the Americas. But the department will likely need to hire additional faculty members to teach these courses...
Diana sometimes finds the tribal rites of the royal family heavy going. For years the holiday schedule has been an inflexible routine: Windsor at Christmas, Balmoral in the summer, a cruise aboard the Britannia to Scotland in August. The family is relentlessly outdoorsy; they like nothing better than to put on their macs and picnic in the chill air of the Scottish Highlands. After the meal, they all go tramping through the heather with a pack of pesky corgis nipping at their heels. Not exactly Diana's idea of a giggle. For her the royal sing-alongs with Princess Margaret...