Word: tribalized
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...Dahomey, a running feud between the leaders of the nation's three main tribal groups had brought down two governments in three years. "I am taking over because of the incapacity of the politicians to govern," said Colonel Christophe Soglo when he brought down the third...
Farther down the road is the prospect of political federation. So far, it has proved an unsuccessful experiment, torpedoed in several instances by prickly national and even tribal sensitivities and by the fear of bureaucrats that cooperation would eliminate duplication of ministries-and hence their jobs. Though it is a geographical entity, for example, Africa suffers from such deep and profound differences as to make it seem like a collection of different worlds. More over, there, are no African, Asian or Latin American countries today that show much interest in revising their borders or totally merging with other nations. Still...
...IRAN Male Volunteers will work with Iran's Literacy Corps, which is the country's most effective instrument in rural community development. Females will serve as teachers in provincial schools for rural and tribal girls. Specialists will train Literacy Corps guides or supervisors in Karaj...
...decisions about its own future and they adjust their expectations for the summer. The children of the tribe are home for vacation, restless because they miss boarding school in town. For the older teenagers especially the summer in Supai only reaffirms their determination to leave the settlement. Parents and tribal leaders, frightened by the threatened exodus of Havasupai's young blood, welcome the PBH volunteers to Supai because they are often able to convince the children and teenagers that there is something precious about their Canyon. Harvard students often claim that their job for the summer was "building egos" -- showing...
...Supai, Ariz., and in other Indian communities, tribes suffer severe schiziphrenia: should they forget they're Indians and migrate to the cities, should they further detach themselves from industry and prosperity to maintain tribal lands in isolated places? PBH volunteers, as is to be expected, are never able to ease those problems: they work with the immediate emotional needs of those communities, with families splintered by migration and boarding schools, restless children who want to leave the floor of the Grand Canyon