Word: tribalized
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Thousands of gaily costumed tribal folk, dressed in bright robes shimmering with beads and bangles, poured through the streets of Rangoon as Burma celebrated its 20th annual Union Day, marking the joining of Burma proper with four tribal states. Unfortunately, there is not a great deal to celebrate. Communist-led tribal bands in the interior are stepping up an ugly guerrilla war. Burma is nervous about the erratic course of Red China, with which it shares a wide-open 1,200-mile border. Even worse, the country's pell-mell plunge into socialism has pell-melled right into chaos...
...much trouble in white-ruled Africa, where they are suspected of too fervently supporting the black man's cause. Rhodesia has plans to turn over control of its 2,781 missionary-run primary schools-which constitute 95% of the country's elementary-education system -to semiliterate tribal chiefs. In the pay of the white-supremacist government, the chiefs can be counted on to make sure that the schools teach the secondary status of black men. South Africa's apartheid regime has reduced missionary visas from three years to one; in its protectorate of South West Africa...
...Arizona legislature debated a smog-abatement bill last week, one member charged that it was discriminatory. "Under this bill," joked State Representative Lloyd House, a Democrat who is a Navajo Indian, "we would not be permitted to send up smoke signals." His real objection was that it violated tribal land rights. The bill passed anyway...
...centuries-old accident, the Piaroa anticipated modern psychiatrists who only recently discovered that by using several classes of drugs together, they can achieve a synergistic effect-one that is greater than the sum of the separate components. The effects of paricá are little known; no one but the tribal medicine man is allowed to use it, and his state can only be described as one of intoxication in which he stammers confused words...
...that time will heal the country's wounds, allowing a gradual extension of federal power. Others feel that Lt. Col. Gowon's proposal that the country be divided into 14 states instead of the present four may offer a way out. Gowon suggests that such a realignment might minimize tribal antagonisms. The details of the plan, however, remain indefinite...