Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were simply furnished with cots and rough tables, lit by candles stuck in tin cans. One F.L.N. officer proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed...
...rest of India. Though nominally part of the state of Assam, the rambling (31,000 sq. mi.) region is administered directly by the central government because Prime Minister Nehru wants to preserve its primeval aboriginal character. In some of N.E.F.A's valleys are nightmarish rain forests where animist tribesmen invoke among their deities a Dysentery God who, when angry, racks their guts with a quick but painful death...
...drone of decibels that 20th century Americans have come to accept as normal. "Ears are not damaged by the normal sounds of life," says Newman. But some disagree. Audiologist Moe Bergman, director of the Speech and Hearing Center at Manhattan's Hunter College, studied a group of African tribesmen who never heard any outside noises but jungle sounds, compared his findings with a study of a group of Angelenos who worked in relatively quiet areas (no loud industrial noises) but were naturally subjected to such everyday sounds as air conditioners, wheezing refrigerators and furnace fans. His conclusion: the Africans...
Died. Major Salah Salem, 42, former Egyptian Minister of National Guidance and one of the original members of the officers' junta that overthrew King Farouk, a flamboyant opportunist who won international notoriety in 1953 as "the Dancing Major" when he was photographed dancing in his undershorts with Sudanese tribesmen during an abortive effort to persuade the Sudan to unite with Egypt; of a kidney ailment; in Cairo...
...Appeal. The peasants refer to both the Diem government and the Communists as they, as if recognizing that a peasant cannot be a participant in the war, only a victim. But even the most isolated tribesmen must choose to which of them he wants to give his allegiance. Typical of the Reds' recruiting and propaganda is one of their recent forays among the Jarai tribe of the central plateau. More than 100 Viet Cong arrived one night, lit a bonfire and assembled the people. "A Communist spoke for 30 or 40 minutes," reported a tribesman. "He spoke Jarai, just...