Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crow about. Even if Katanga is successfully reintegrated, he will still face the equally formidable problems of administrative incompetence, official corruption, army indiscipline and-worst of all-rivalries among the Congo's 200 tribes. The point was underlined in blood last week in Kasai province, where feuding tribesmen were at one another's throats over a border dispute. Natives kidnaped and reportedly ate two Belgian lumbermen, then began slaughtering one another in the town of Kakenge. Such gruesome incidents no longer surprised anyone. A Leopoldville newspaper reported the event as matter-of-factly as if it were...
...little civil war in Yemen 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...
...disputed land is the size of Minnesota, lakes and all. It falls from the wind-whipped mountains of Gilgit and Ladakh in the north to the idyllic Vale of Kashmir. In the Himalayas, primitive mountain tribesmen keep herds of graceful, sure-footed Kashmir goats, whose soft fleece becomes the cashmere of Fifth Avenue and Regent Street; the cool lakes near Kashmir's capital city of Srinagar are dotted with the elegant houseboats of wealthy Indians...
...Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing up Turkish trains and garrisons from Medina to Damascus. Then Allenby strikes north from Aqaba, and Lawrence leads 3,000 tribesmen in triumph to Damascus...
...reports from the heart of the barren, remote land last week suggested that a Yemen guerrilla army of more than 30,000 fierce, leathery tribesmen at last was on the move against the rebels-and taking a deadly toll...