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...ordering them into action at Amini's request, instead of allowing his government to be swept into limbo like four others in the past five years, the Shah belatedly demonstrated support for his Premier's far-reaching reform program. The Shah also exiled General Teymour Bakhtiar, a tribal potentate who had been waiting in the wings to replace Amini...
Capitol Hill may have its first full blooded American Indian as a U.S. Representative next year. For Arizona's newly created Third Congressional District seat, state Republicans are talking about running Navajo Tribal Council Chairman Paul Jones, 71, who has ably supervised his tribe's business interests, including uranium and oil deposits. One argument for Jones: some three-quarters of the state's 83,400 Indians live in the new district...
During his meteoric rise in Kenya's black nationalist movement, moon-faced Tom Mboya, 31, has taken two wives, both of them in the simple tribal custom that permits any marriage to be dissolved whenever the partners decide to separate. Neither union worked, but last week he announced that he would take another stab at matrimony. This time the marriage would take place on a more permanent basis-in the Roman Catholic Church, to which Mboya has belonged ever since his childhood days in Catholic mission schools...
...throwing a few snowballs outside the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe, leopardskin cap with monkey tails, a necklace of leopard's teeth-Luthuli spoke for all that is best in black Africa, showing an intellectual's perspective, the devoutness of a mission-educated Christian, and the faith in nonviolence that has always marked...
...more fuel to the fire which will eventually consume the U.N. and all it is supposed to represent.'' The New York Daily News suggested that the U.S. stop "bankrolling the U.N. Congo campaign" and leave "the Congo chiefs to settle their differences by means of the exhilarating tribal wars so dear to the hearts of most Congolese." The Tampa Tribune found a "monstrous inconsistency'' in the U.N.'s hands-off policy on Hungary and its hands-on policy in Africa...