Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gulf of Guinea. In Cotonou, the capital, and nearby Porto-Novo, the ragged crowds carried black-draped coffins and chanted war songs as they ransacked government offices, burned cars, hauled down the green, yellow and red national flag from public buildings, and demanded Maga's ouster. Bariba tribesmen from Maga's native northern region leaped into the fray in his defense and killed two demonstrators with bows and arrows. Finally the President resigned in favor of Colonel Christophe Soglo, commander of Dahomey's 800-man army, who became head of state and promptly suspended the constitution...
...spent most of his adult years as a professional soldier in the French army, included his friend Maga in the interim government as Foreign Minister. He is trying hard to balance his government between the unions, which still howl for Maga's complete removal, and the northern Bariba tribesmen, who are on the warpath to win Maga's complete reinstatement. Though massive French aid helped the new nations in the area to achieve a measure of economic progress and political stability, Dahomey and the other former French colonies are now threatened with tribal and sectional wars that could...
...local tribesmen have long avoided fog-shrouded Mount Nimba in Western Liberia as a spot inhabited by duwa -the sinister "little people" who have old men's faces and feet that turn backward. But Scottish Geologist Sandy Clark, a more prosaic fellow, found no such world of spirits when he scaled Nimba eight years ago. He found something almost as extraordinary: "a world of iron ore"-one of the largest reserves of high-grade ore (at least 260 million tons) ever discovered...
...just an avalanche of starving refugees. Then the Kremlin launched its own attack, charged that Red Chinese military units and civilians had systematically violated the border 5,000 times during 1962 alone, and had tried to grab Soviet territory. What's more, protested Russia last week, innocent border tribesmen who have roamed back and forth across the Sinkiang frontier for centuries are being moved to the interior of Red China on the suspicion that they harbor pro-Soviet sympathies...
Sound of Music. Near Plei Mrong, McNamara tramped through red mud to visit a village of Montagnard tribesmen that had been nearly destroyed by the Viet Cong last January; surrounded by goats, pigs, chickens and barebreasted women, the Defense Secretary observed the villagers voting in the national election being held that day, which was carefully arranged to sweep back into office a new Diem-ruled National Assembly. Then the Secretary, Taylor and Ambassador Lodge headed south into the Communistinfested Mekong Delta, where the war has always been an uphill struggle, and where the Reds have recently increased activity. As they...