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Priority for Scuttling. With U.S. support, wily Gavam was not now so hard-pressed to please the Russians, and no longer so eager to sponsor the Russian oil agreement before a new Majlis. Troublesome tribesmen, who roam over two-thirds of Persia's barren land, gave him his latest excuse to string out the elections. They look with suspicion on the central Government and army (present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern...
...chairs, tables, rugs, and saying: "That was mine before the war."* Last week in London the Burmans pointed to the west, north, and east borders of British Burma and claimed the country where the Chins, Shans, Kachins, Nagas, Was, and some Karens lived. Most of these non-Burman tribesmen had been loyal to the British (as most Burmans were not) during the war, and Britain had promised to protect them. But when the Burmans, like the furniture owners, pointed out that the tribal areas were part of prewar Burma, the British gave in and agreed eventually to incorporate the tribes...
...daily. As a result of the stoppage, the rice ration in New Delhi was cut from twelve to eight ounces. In New Delhi 100,000 children were out of school because of a teachers' strike (87% of Indians are illiterate). In southwestern India even the aboriginal Warli tribesmen refused to perform farm work, tried to chase landlords off the land...
Square Meter in Heaven. This time the British sided not with the Egyptians, but with the Mahdi. The British knew how deeply the Sudanese hate the Egyptians, who still call them Abed (slaves) in memory of the times when Sudanese tribesmen were sold down the river to the slave marts of Alexandria and Cairo. The British also knew the value to Britain of the Sudan under sympathetic native rule...
...djinn-infested Nuba is marched out of his village in a procession headed by a goat wearing a big brass bell. Victim and goat are buried alive. When the bell stops ringing, the tribesmen know that the goat and the man are dead, and the djinn is banished. Recently explorers in the Otoros came across the graves of two crippled children and a deaf-&-dumb woman. Last week police arrested 22 tribesmen for murder...