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Clouded Claims. Ever since, helped by money and supplies from the uneasy monarchs of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, the Imam and his tribal warriors have been inching doggedly back toward San'a. President Sallal appealed for help to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, an old friend of the Imam but an even more implacable foe of the oil-rich desert dynasties who were helping Badr. Nasser rushed in Egyptian troops, whose Soviet-made guns, tanks and jets make them the Arab world's most formidable fighting force...
Died. Melville Jean Herskovits, 67, founder-director of the U.S.'s first program of African studies at Northwestern University, a brilliant anthropologist (The Human Factor in Changing Africa) whose 40 years of research led him to counsel "that Africans could best form working governments based on tribal law and custom rather than on unnatural systems borrowed from outside; of a heart attack; in Evanston...
Nigeria has survived to become Africa's most conspicuously successful democracy. Its birth pangs were eased by a long tradition of tribal government, and by the solid good sense of many African leaders whom the British groomed for self-rule-notably its federal Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1960). The greatest single assurance of stability has been Nigeria's tripod form of government, designed to prevent any one region from dominating the other two. That system is now in jeopardy, and with it the very future of Nigeria as a democracy...
...establishing the Transkei Bantustan-certain to pass the Nationalist Party-controlled legislature, probably by June-there was more trouble. The government plans to make Kaizer Matanzima. a mission-educated Tembu chief, the chief minister of the new Transkei government. The bodyguard of a headman serving Matanzima got into a tribal fight with 40 warriors armed with spears and axes. Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders and the tribal outbreak on the increasing...
Matanzima's powers to govern the Transkei's 1,400,000 blacks, 15,000 to 20,000 whites, and 14,000 coloreds will be strictly limited. All measures passed by the local legislature of tribal chiefs and elected representatives are subject to veto by the central government; Cape Town still will control justice and internal security. Money to improve the barren region will be lacking. Verwoerd has promised an annual budget subsidy of $30 million, but this falls far short of meeting the need for housing, schools, land reclamation, establishing new industry. In addition, Matanzima faces powerful political...