Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patterns. There have been two sizable wars and fully two dozen armed uprisings and rebellions. Premiers and princes have been torn limb from limb by street mobs; thousands of politicians and army officers have been killed by hanging, beheading, firing squads and assassins; and swarms of students, workers and tribesmen have been mowed down by machine guns and bombs...
...happens, Kenya's northeast has long been a favorite squatting ground for nomadic Somali tribesmen, who herd their camels and goats back and forth across the Horn of Africa without heed to national borders. Fiercely independent, the illiterate Moslem tribesmen fight savagely among themselves for grazing land, for this is the possession they hold most dear. A proud people, tall, lithe' and fine-featured, the Somalis are Hamitic in origin, descended in part from 7th century Arabs who crossed into Africa from Yemen. Forever vain about their heritage, they are also accustomed to having their...
...which was approved 1,000-to-1 in a national referendum in January. With the nation behind him, the Shah has pushed steadily ahead with his land split-up, despite loud outcries from the big landowners. A few weeks ago, one outraged group, the nomadic Qashqai (pronounced gosh guy) tribesmen, who herd cattle in the Southern province of Ears, registered its protest by attacking Iranian police posts, killing ten officers and men. When the dissident Qashqai refused to surrender and were joined by malcontents of two other tribes, the Shah grimly ordered his air force to crush the revolt. Peeling...
...earnestness, sincerity, strength and seriousness of purpose." Stopping off in Cairo on his way home, Bunche conferred for two hours with Nasser, then saw newsmen. He emphasized that the Yemeni people he saw supported Sallal's government "in a positive way." The radio voice of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore the Imam plaintively begged Bunche to visit the areas they controlled "and see the real truth-see the roads, ravines and mountains of Yemen littered with Egyptian dead." But, on this trip at least, Ralph Bunche was satisfied to draw his conclusions from one side only. Later...
...elements are known to be at work in Jordan, especially among the Palestinian Arabs. Saudi Arabia can no longer trust its small air force or even the officer corps of its regular army. If it comes to fighting, the Saudi rulers will depend on their "white army," the Bedouin tribesmen traditionally loyal to the King. But if the road ahead looks rough for the monarchies, it by no means is smooth for the "liberated" states, since victory most often presents only new occasions for quarrels, in keeping with the Arab proverb that says, "I and my brother against my cousin...