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...someone has one-sixteenth or less "Indian blood" then he is a white. But Virginia still hasn't decided what you are if you have one-eighth Indian heritage, i.e. one of your great-grandparents was an Indian. Furthermore, if a man is an inhabitant of an Indian tribal reservation and has at least one Indian grandparent and less than one-sixteenth "Negro blood," then despite the state's definition of a Negro he may be regarded as an Indian on the reservation. Once he leaves the reservation, however, he undergoes a legal metamorphosis and becomes a Negro. Of course...
Safe Conduct. During the past four months, Ne Win has desperately tried to make peace with Burma's assorted rebels. He guaranteed safe conduct for political and tribal leaders from and to their swamp and jungle hideouts. Results were discouraging. Ne Win complained that the rebels-particularly the Communists-only wanted to buy time in which to regroup, rearm and prepare new offensives. He broke off the talks, let the leaders return to their jungle camps and then began a police roundup of 1,400 leftists of all shades...
Oiling the Hinges. Ever since the first cave man sealed a tribal alliance over a haunch of charred flesh and a gourdful of fermented juice, such working sessions have been as much a part of diplomacy as the formal conference. Thanks largely to his wit and disarming manner at parties, Benjamin Franklin coaxed 55 million livres out of a nearly bankrupt French government during American Revolution. Bound for the Congress of Vienna, Talleyrand told King Louis XVIII, "Sire, I have more need of casseroles than of written instructions," and his success in softening the terms imposed on his defeated nation...
Traditionally, NUSAS has been apolitical, limiting its activities to the educational sphere. It has rallied support against government efforts to further segregate higher education, set up tutorial projects at the abysmal "tribal" (native African) universities, and "kept Western ideas alive" among university students. But the detainment law and other repressive measures are "politicizing" NUSAS, Du Plessis said. "To draw a distinction between education and apartheid is unreal." And thus the uneasy peace between NUSAS and the government grows ever more tenuous...
...volunteers have also won a good reputation for the Harvard project. All ten tribes who had them last summer want more volunteers back next year. And when Bayne visited tribal councils after last summer's program, he found ten more tribes willing to use Harvard and Radcliffe students...