Word: tribesmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dense papyrus swamp 50 miles from Nairobi last week, the Mau Mau were making what the British hoped was their last stand. Sixty terrorists were trapped, including several members of the hierarchy which has directed the four-year war against their fellow Kikuyu tribesmen and their white employers. With an estimated 3,000 Mau Mau at large in scattered groups, the British felt that "the emergency" was almost ended...
...enfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of illiterate tribesmen has its problems. Kenya's Minister for Education, Labor and Lands, Walter Fleming Coutts, appointed to study possible electoral systems, last week proposed multiple voting (an idea that Coutts had read about in Novelist Nevil Shute's satirical In the Wet), by which each voter will have voting points varying according to his educational advancement and status: if he can read, has finished high school, has served five years in the armed services, and been decorated, he can earn up to six votes. Coutts's proposals came under attack...
Dust screens rise before the attacking tribesmen, mobile artillery lobs fireballs at the wooden stockade, and at the climactic moment an improvised land torpedo demolishes a corner of the fort. The siege is superlatively picturesque, and so is almost everything else that Cameraman "Wilfrid Cline has trained his lens on. Some spectators, though, may be mildly startled at the final fade, in which the lovers are back in the water again, drifting sensuously downstream together with nothing on as they laugh derisively at the wagon train that rolls sturdily past them on its way to the coast. Somehow, it just...
Born in Calcutta of a family that had served in India since 1805, he was as excited about India as though he had gone there from a Midwestern farm. He was afire with the need to make good with his Gurkha troops, tribesmen from Nepal whose qualities as men and soldiers still excite his respect and imagination: "There were no excuses, no grumbling, no shirking, no lying. There was no intrigue, no apple-polishing, and no servility." Not until two years had passed did they put the seal of approval on the young subaltern. It was a loyalty worth having...
...soldiers to surrender to the authorities. Trusting the British, some 700 mutineers gave themselves up, but a campaign of counterterror launched by the northern Sudanese put the rest to flight. Some Negro rebels cast off their uniforms and returned to tribal life; others went on pillaging villages. Thousands of tribesmen fled with their families to the Belgian Congo and Uganda. District commissioners tried captured rebels in drumhead courts, ordered 168 executed by firing squads...