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Freedom Shirts. A leftist-oriented demagogue, Kapwepwe heads Zambia's powerful grouping of Bemba tribes, which account for a fourth of the country's 4,000,000 population and a good part of its bitter tribal rivalry. Two years ago, when he was elected vice president of the country's ruling United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P.), Kapwepwe automatically took over Zambia's vice-presidency. During a hastily called press conference last week, he abruptly resigned. In a speech designed to upstage Kaunda, who was scheduled to deliver a nationwide address that afternoon, Kapwepwe complained that...
...simplest people. They live near-naked in Stone Age savagery in high, roadless valleys surrounded by nameless, unmapped tropical forests. In some of their 150 dialects, counting goes no further than "one, two, many . . . " Their weapons are stone axes, 16-ft. spears and poisoned arrows. Cannibalism, headhunting and tribal warfare are common...
...proposed a 750-ft.-wide corridor from Miami to Naples, and highway planners are "dotting in" roads that would further upset the park's water cycle. When completed, the jetport itself would displace some 200 Mikasuki Indians, who were guaranteed a small area in which to continue their tribal ways and colorful rituals. Superintendent Raftery and an Interior lawyer also contend that a clause in the Transportation Act required a study of alternatives as well as proposals to prevent or minimize environmental damages. Raftery argues that Transportation ignored the clause. Instead, he says, the agency encouraged a project that...
...Blows. Nothing of the sort, says Vidal. "I do not prefer homosexuality to heterosexuality," he writes, "or, for that matter, heterosexuality to homosexuality . . . But regardless of tribal taboos, homosexuality is a constant fact of the human condition and it is not a sickness, not a sin, not a crime." Vidal insists that "I am not an evangelist of anything in sexual matters except a decent withdrawal of the state from the bedroom." He calls Buckley one of those "morbid, twisted men" who are always "sniggering and giggling and speculating on the sexual lives of others...
...uproar brought into sharp focus the problem of judicial independence in Africa. The concept of an autonomous judiciary rankles many Africans. In Zambia, as in other African nations, justice at the local level is administered by the tribal chief; the concept of a separate court is alien. Moreover, growing nationalism creates impatience with anything that seems to block political and economic goals...