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...until recently artichokes were the main preoccupation of Farmer Luigi Franco and his son Francesco. Not any more. Last July Francesco broke a plow on what turned out to be the limestone roof of an ancient Lucanian tomb. Such tombs, decorated with the crude paintings of the local tribesmen who made them, have been found before in southern Italy. But this one was different. When excavated by Archaeologist Mario Napoli, superintendent of antiquities for the district of Salerno, the walls of the tomb were found to be covered with accomplished paintings that to Napoli's trained eye, seemed unmistakably...
Groaning Lorries. The bedraggled caravans are filled with Hausa tribesmen in flowing white robes, bare-breasted Yoruba women from Nigeria, Malian water carriers, Upper Voltan gold miners, Ivorean timber merchants and beggars of all nationalities. The luckier ones started out in trucks or wood-frame "mammy wagons" whose fares have jumped more than 400% since the exodus got under way. For many, travel by whatever means stopped at the border. Groaning lorries carrying homeward-bound Nigerians and Dahomians are stalled in columns miles long because they have not received permission to cross tiny Togo. An unknown number of people have...
...aliens. It seemed a flimsy excuse for one of the greatest forced population movements in black African history. In numbers, if not in poignancy, it exceeds two recent forced moves. One was the flight of 150,000 Watutsi from Rwanda in the early 1960s, when the tall, proud tribesmen were hunted down and slaughtered by rival Bahutus. The other was the exodus of 21,000 Asians from Kenya over the past two years...
Last week the Indians, now 150 strong, made it clear that they are on Alcatraz to stay. Announcing that they considered their invasion a success, the occupiers and 183 visitors, including Eskimos, Mexican Aztecs and a representative sampling of American tribesmen, gathered to make plans for governing the newly seized territory. Meeting under the leadership of Richard Oakes, 27, a Mohawk who attends San Francisco State College, they discussed, among other things, the legality of their occupation and a center for native American studies that they intend to establish on the island. The Indians are willing to buy Alcatraz from...
...nervous at the prospect of a U.S. stand-down in Southeast Asia, are as alarmed as Laos over the Chinese road work. Officials in Bangkok claim that China may be planning an armed invasion of northern Thailand, where government forces have been having recurring troubles with the Meo tribesmen since 1967. This is probably no more than a fanciful worry on the part of the Thais. A more likely explanation for the road may be that China is planning to step up aid to the Laotian rebels. During the National Day speeches in Peking last October, Laos was moved...