Word: tribalized
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...Lumumba aides and bullyboys he was holding. They had been sent to him for safekeeping by the Leopoldville Congolese authorities. He snatched them from jail, hauled them into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later put on trial before Baluba tribal chiefs. For six, the verdict was death. Hardly was this ugly news made public before whispers emerged from the Eastern province of Lumumbaist Rebel Antoine Gizenga, Khrushchev's favorite puppet, that ten imprisoned members of the national Congolese Parliament and five anti-Lumumba army officers had in turn been...
...Congo's town politicians bickered and battled, few of them had a thought for a greater tragedy unfolding in the remote bush of South Kasai. There 300,000 pathetic Baluba tribesmen, hurled out of their homelands last year by the tribal fighting, huddled homeless and hungry in a harsh, inhospitable region where few crops grew. Now, unless massive help arrived soon, many of them faced death from sheer starvation. Nearly all the children suffered from the dread protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which shriveled limbs, swelled bellies and fouled the blood. Already, several thousand adults and children have died...
Added Charles S. Rhyne, former president of the American Bar Association and a longtime crusader for world law, who attended as an observer: "In a continent where illiterate populations are largely governed by unwritten tribal and customary law, enforced by illiterate chiefs and elders, there is more need for a rule of law than ever. It is vital to educate governments to the necessity of allowing opposition to exist as part of the rule of law. The conference statement of principles gives both lawyers and political opposition something to cite and something to work with...
...more affluent Lao and with some reason, since virtually none of the $300 million in U.S. aid has ever trickled out of the pockets of the Vientiane politicians and into the poorer sections. The Pathet Lao Communists have played shrewdly on these feelings, have won much support by promising tribal autonomy when they take over the country (after which they will, of course, revoke the autonomy). Though their leaders are mostly dedicated Communists, the Pathet Lao have generally avoided terror tactics, and even share the general Laotian proclivity for rice-wine bouts and fertility festivals. They have many friends among...
...mission schoolteacher whose sawed-off front teeth indelibly record his pagan tribal upbringing, Nyerere views federation as a far better solution to Africa's problems than fragmented independence. "The proliferation of independent states in Africa means a waste of manpower and money," he says. "It means weak economies and delays in development, and it will also mean the weakening of African influence in world affairs...