Word: tribalized
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...spoke on a blustery October day to an Irish throng within earshot of the border of Northern Ireland, where Roman Catholics and Protestants are engaged in tribal bloodshed. Now John Paul II, apostle of peace and justice, is himself a victim of terrorism. The killing continues in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. But if his words often go unheeded, the explosion of grief and affection as the Pope lay in a Rome hospital showed the extraordinary impact he has made, not just upon 700 million Catholics but on the world...
...brutalized East Central African country might at last begin to heal its wounds. But in the four months since he resumed the office from which Dictator Idi Amin Dada ousted him a decade ago, there has been no peace between the country's bitterly divided political and tribal groups. Charging that the elections won by his Uganda People's Congress (U.P.C.) had been rigged, two rebel armies have launched an offensive aimed at toppling Obote's regime. In retaliation, scores of people have been murdered by both Obote's ragtag army and a sinister array...
...with near impunity. Indeed the rebels seem to be better armed and equipped than they were a year ago. Their methods of operation are also increasingly sophisticated. About a third of the estimated 50,000 men that make up the various rebel groups launch their cross-border forays from tribal territories in Pakistan...
Though the Salisbury conference fell short of its $2 billion goal, Mugabe was pleased with the results. The money will be used to repair war damage, resettle refugees, develop agriculture and redistribute land. Despite continuing tribal warfare, Mugabe pledged to press ahead with Zimbabwe's reconstruction. "While they may not have been turned into plow shares," he said, "the swords of war have nonetheless been rendered blunt, and within our country we are determined to keep them that way." The only economic sour note for Mugabe was sounded in Pretoria, which announced last week that it would...
Nine of the victims belonged to the Hmong tribe, and tribal leaders theorize that the deaths are a delayed reaction to what they believe was nerve gas dropped by North Vietnamese forces in retaliation for Hmong support of U.S. efforts in Viet Nam and Laos. Dr. David Paulson of the St. Paul health department does not buy that notion: "Nerve gas usually kills instantaneously and it does not discriminate between the sexes." Indeed there is no firm evidence that any of the victims had even been exposed to chemical agents in their homeland or that the North Vietnamese ever possessed...