Word: tribalized
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Political Awareness. There is also concern, at least among whites, that once the Portuguese presence is gone, old tribal differences may assert themselves. To offset this danger, Frelimo officials have been conducting a political awareness campaign all over the country, 90% of whose people are illiterate. Teams of young recruits have scoured bush villages to advertise Frelimo's political and social doctrines-no drunkenness, only one wife, equal rights for women (Frelimo has women soldiers and one woman Cabinet member...
Despite his ruthless oppression of political opponents, Tombalbaye was never able to gain complete control of Chad, a country torn by traditional religious and tribal animosities. Starting in 1965 and later with the support of the French Foreign Legion, Tombalbaye fought a guerrilla war against the Moslem rebels from his country's northern and eastern desert regions. The Moslems, who constitute 52% of the population, resented the political dominance that Tombalbaye gave to the Bantu tribesmen of Chad's tropical south...
...George Washington, one of three in existence, for about $375,000 and display it in the state capital, Olympia, by July 4, 1976. But most Bicentennial projects in the West are drawn from the region's own history and heritage. Alaskans are rebuilding the Tlingit and Haida tribal houses in Angoon and restoring a log headquarters built in 1793 by Russian fur traders in Kodiak. Hawaiians are constructing a 60-ft., double-hulled sailing canoe in which a crew of 24 will leave on April 1, 1976, for a month-long voyage to Tahiti and back to demonstrate...
...Cabinet Room to Capitol Hill. In the State Department they put up the coded progress reports by the hour. The old Southeast Asia hands walked with a little more pride among their mementos, which have never been put away, including a stuffed mongoose and a fine selection of tribal folk art. Suddenly there was a resurgence of the collapsible aluminum pointer, that riding crop of bureaucratic status. All up and down the ranks, the pointers were extended with sharp clicks, the desk officers and colonels whacking the charts authoritatively as they explained the fluid fronts, slapping their trouser legs...
...Good Ship Lollipop was obviously not quite the thing for Accra. So instead, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Shirley Temple Black, 46, jogged a local high-life stomp before a delighted crowd. En paste for less than three months, Shirley has already started coming to grips with local tribal languages, tossing off "akwaaba " (welcome in Twi) and "oy-iwala donn " (thank you in Ga) without even a hint of her notorious childhood lisp. Resident Americans who greeted Shirley with skepticism now call her a solid plus for Uncle Sam. Said one Ghanaian official happily: "It's good to have...