Word: tribesmen
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...fact that upriver he has a political challenger named Jacques Opangault. The abbé took care of him in great style. The abbé has a 23 to 22 majority in the territorial Assembly, but the capital city of Pointe-Noire is in the hands of M'vili tribesmen friendly to his rival. When the Assembly gathered to choose the territory's future status, the abbé's rivals began throwing chairs about and smashing windows. Opangault himself whacked the Speaker over the head with a microphone. Police cleared out the invaders with tear...
...Gwembe Valley between Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Nature has guarded them, for their valley lies between the foaming splendor of the 350-ft.-high Victoria Falls, over whose sheer cliff pours 75 million gallons of water per minute, and a narrow, rock-walled gorge called the Kariba by the tribesmen because of its resemblance to the funnel-shaped traps they set for mice, rats and other small animals...
Upland Air. The government had not forgotten the docile Batonga. Official spokesmen appeared, told the tribesmen they were to be moved to more fertile land. The officials conceded that parts of the new area were infested with lions, elephants and the tsetse fly, but they were sure the Batonga would find the upland air bracing after centuries of breathing the swampy vapors of the Gwembe Valley...
...Thumbed noses at federal laws, such as the Wagner Labor Relations Act, by prohibiting tribesmen from joining labor unions; the 74-man Tribal Council shooed organizers for the United Steel Workers and the Operating Engineers from their land by invoking an 1868 treaty provision that prohibits anyone except federal employees from setting foot on tribal lands without a permit...
...smuggled to Japan in 1941 for military training. When the Japanese occupied Burma, Ne Win came with them, but, like the other Thakins, soon discovered that the Japanese occupiers were more cruel than the British, and began fighting them. He has been fighting ever since: against the rebellious Karen tribesmen, against 9,000 Chinese Nationalists along the China border, against the insurgent Communists in the jungles, swamps and paddies where some 4,000 of his soldiers have died...