Word: tribalized
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...began in a beer hall next to a Zimbabwean army camp with a weekend brawl among soldiers from the country's two major tribal groups, the Shona and Ndebele. But the fighting, which expanded last week into a fierce factional and tribal war, resulted in more than 100 deaths and dramatized the serious internal conflicts that have continued to plague Prime Minister Robert Mugabe since independence ten months...
...avoid or at least contain future clashes, Nkomo proposed relocating army bases far from civilian centers. But no matter how far the units are removed, the dangerous, deeply rooted tribal and political antagonisms will go with them...
...Pakistan's seeming inability to heal its ethnic divisions, curb its birth rate and ultimately feed its people. The collapse of Pakistan from within-and Pakistan is just one example-could have serious repercussions throughout its region: renewed warfare with India over Kashmir, say, or the spread of tribal warfare into Iran...
...conceivable that World War III could start with the U.S. and Soviet Union taking sides, however reluctantly, in such a regional brawl. One possible site is the volatile Horn of Africa, where the forces of instability are as much demographic as geopolitical; famine and tribal vendettas might turn out to be as destructive as Kremlin scheming. The superpowers might be drawn in, since Soviet as well as Cuban forces are entrenched in Ethiopia, while the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force has access to bases in Ethiopia's hostile neighbor, Somalia...
...magistrate. It was as magistrate of a district subdivision that Banuri sometimes played the role of frontier-town sheriff, taking the law into his own hands. But his duties were more diverse and demanding than simple law enforcement, for he was "the only representative of the government" in outlying tribal areas...