Word: tribalized
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...education now, and more culture. There is a breaking down of old class barriers. There are more opportunities now, and people are making more of their opportunities. And these are people who once had nothing at all." The historian is daunted in this faith by neither "teenage rowdyism" nor tribal warfare in Africa. "You have to remember that the African countries are just starting on the road we've already traveled. That's no reason to condemn them. I dare say there may be bloody mess on the way, but one has to expect that...
...conferred at length with ten African chiefs of state, talked briefly with nearly 200 Cabinet ministers, shaken hands with some 400 diplomats. He had toured dozens of dam sites, factories and historical monuments, sat straight-faced through scores of folk-dance performances, and collected enough tribal masks and carved ivory gewgaws to open his own African museum. But what had he achieved...
...With Army Chief General Joseph Mobutu back on duty after a month-long vacation, 700 green-bereted Congolese commandos from Katanga debarked from planes in the Kwilu capital of Kikwit, began un loading guns and ammunition. The troops had their work cut out for them: a spreading, Communist-aided tribal revolt that has turned...
...grown-up John Thomas never cries. He works for an orthopedic supply house, and he is the Boston representative for something called Niagara Cyclo-Massage machines. He collects jazz records, lives in a two-room basement apartment jammed with fur pelts, tribal masks and African sculpture ("the Congo Hilton," he calls it). "Now I'm going to see what life is really all about," he says. But first there is that Olympic gold medal he intends to win next fall in Tokyo. "It's between me and that bar," says Thomas...
...situation seems to have developed in Rwanda," a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross declared in Geneva last week. Indeed it had. In the onetime Belgian colony, a tribal massacre little short of genocide was under way. By conservative estimate, 6,000 Watutsi men, women and children have already been slaughtered or tortured to death by hordes of Bahutu warriors...