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Relations between Mustafa and Kassim gradually worsened after the former's return to Iraq and in August, 1961, Mustafa led his followers into open revolt against the Baghdad government. During the fall and winter of that year he consolidated his position among the various Kurdish tribes, defeated tribal groups armed by Kassim, such as the Lolans and Harchis, and attacked government outposts in Western Iraq. Barzani's success led him to shift his guerrillas to the Eastern Front where he has consistently defeated Kassim's troops. The Kurds, whose total forces number between 12,000 and 15,000 men, have...
...Terence ("Terrible Terry'') Wolowo Ajkaje, a 6-ft.-y-in. African native who is the ambitious leader of the British protectorate of Gorotoland. To make a name for himself, Terrible Terry pops up in South Carolina on the tense first day of school integration. Dressed in his tribal robes, he picks up a little Negro girl and touches off a riot by carrying her up the school steps through a blockading mob of screaming white harridans...
...inhabit more than half the land of South Viet Nam, the montagnards consider the Vietnamese to be carpetbaggers who came into the hills only to exploit them and steal their land. Taking advantage of this loathing, Communist Viet Cong guerrilla cadres from the north moved into the mountains, adopted tribal customs, even took montagnard wives in an effort to persuade the mountain people to join their ranks...
Political parties: 2. Voters: 66%. British have largely governed through four tribal kingdoms, whose peoples still owe allegiance to tribe rather than nation, vote as leaders tell them but are accustomed to democratic debate...
Peppered Tea. Skin cancer provided the Chaklin teams with their most neatly classified data. The disease results largely from overexposure to the sun, and is therefore most common in Russia's south. But its frequency varies with tribal fashions. Uzbeks, who wear small skull caps, have almost twice as much skin cancer on the head as the Turkomans, who protect themselves under big fur hats on the blazing desert...