Word: tribesmen
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...General Chang Kuo-hua, the Red Chinese commander in Tibet, the coming of spring promised revenge for the indignities of winter. He was no longer tied down by the bitter weather and snow-clogged roads, forced to submit to the fierce hit-and-run raids of the rebellious Khamba tribesmen (TIME, March 16). Now he got word that 25,000 Khambas were concentrated only 40 miles north of the capital city of Lhasa. The tribesmen were supported by 8,000 Buddhist monks who, after the Reds looted their monasteries, traded prayer wheels for guns...
...portable radio transmitter from the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s nearby camp so that his countrymen could be summoned to his side. "O great people," cried the new voice of Radio Mosul, "rise and kill the dictator who has betrayed the revolution's aims!" Knowing which tribesmen in the vicinity could be counted on, Shawaf sent word to the Shammar tribesmen, Bedouins who roam the countryside near the Syrian border. In thousands, the Shammars, clad in long woollen skirts and white headdress bound in black, drifted into Mosul...
...dragged through the streets, then dumped in a car and driven off to Baghdad. Through two days' wild shooting and looting, three Americans huddled in the Station Hotel bar to save being torn to pieces by the mobs. At the government's call, the non-Arabic Kurdish tribesmen had poured into Mosul to carry the battle to their ancient foes, the skirted Shammar warriors. The Kurds were easily identifiable by their baggy trousers, wide cummerbunds and fringed headgear. They spotted Sheik Ahmed Ajil, paramount chief of the Shammars, riding in a car and killed both...
...person as a man who fights against Arab unity. Punning on Kassem's name, which in Arabic means "splitter," he shouted that "Iraq's splitter" had fought Arab brotherhood more viciously than the hated Nuri asSaid himself. Iraqi planes, firing on the thousands of defeated rebels and tribesmen fleeing for their lives, had bombed a Syrian border village. His own air force, Nasser said righteously, could have retaliated with blows twice as strong but refrained "because the villages we would have hit are Arab villages...
...Tribesmen. For Japan's 46,780,000 women, Michiko-san's unprecedented break with ancient tradition is the most dramatic illustration of a change that has come to all of them-the direct result of the crushing defeat of Japan in the Pacific war, the unsettling occupation of the green and pleasant islands by U.S. troops, and the new constitution established by the conqueror, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception...