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Today the same people incarnate modern Arab lore emerging from the magic elixir of oil. The oil price boom in 1973 began barely two years after seven gulf emirates-Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah-set aside tribal quarrels to form a loose federation. The cornucopia of oil money has yielded perhaps the highest per capita income in the world for Emirates citizens (in excess of $100,000 a year) and created a cradle-to-grave welfare state. But the Emirates face the most serious population imbalance in the region: of a population...
...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...
Meanwhile, the Hawaiians destroyed their own heritage. In 1819 they were seized, as dying cultures sometimes are, by self-hatred; in an iconoclastic frenzy, urged on by Christian missionaries, they burned or broke nearly all their effigies of tribal gods. The few examples in the Chicago show suggest that the Hawaiians had appreciably less sculptural genius than other Pacific cultures, such as the Maoris or New Hebrideans; but the gaunt, intimidating ferocity of some of the pieces, especially a head woven from vine roots with its mouth outlined in dogs' teeth and its scalp matted with human hair, could...
...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...