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...Verwoerd's list was the Transkei, a Denmark-size (16,500 sq. mi.) area of eroded farm land on the Indian Ocean. Nobody knows the troubles it has seen. Ever since Africans went on a rampage there more than two years ago, murdering the government's handpicked tribal chiefs and setting fire to entire villages, mobile police patrols armed with Sten guns, armored cars, and helicopter spotter planes have had to stay on duty in parts of the Transkei. Fortnight ago, a white family of four were capriciously hacked to death with pangas as they stumbled down...
...extreme leftist leaders of the 300,000-member General Union of Algerian Workers because they were resisting his rapprochement with France, replaced them with trusted pro-government men. Though the problems of regionalism and marauding guerrillas still plague him, he has managed to win over most of the hostile tribal chieftains in the hinterlands to his side...
...Afro-Asian nations, the U.N. was determined to dictate a settlement to Tshombe and make it stick. If it fails, the rest of the Congo, starved of the riches that enable Katanga to account for 65% of the country's exports, could splinter into a score of warring tribal domains. Already a corps of 100 Central Government functionaries was flying into Elisabethville to take charge of Katanga's administration...
...last week spluttered on like a defective fuse. The royalist tribesmen trying to put the deposed Imam of Yemen back on his feudal throne made hit-and-run attacks on strongpoints held by the "republicans" of General Abdullah Sallal and their Egyptian allies. In return Egyptian planes bombed the tribal encampments and even crossed the border to blast again the Saudi Arabian town of Najran, the main staging area for supplies sent to the royalists by the nervous monarchs of both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Kings Hussein and Saud...
...point of the scimitar, has there been anything to compare with the current Moslem growth in Africa. There are more than 100 million Moslems on the Dark Continent, and the simple doctrines and disciplines taught by Mohammed are gaining perhaps 9,000,000 converts a year from tribal cults-nine times the conversion rate to Christianity. "The Afro-Asian nations have come out of bondage and are free to choose," crows Mohammed Twefik Eweida, 30, secretary-general of the council. "Religious awakening came together with political liberation...