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Since science can now distinguish the incurably sick from the curable, mercy killing is justified-so goes the chatter in cocktail bars. The naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro Hills, deep in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...years although they were nominally "conquered" by the Han Emperor, Wu Ti (B.C. 140-87). The Manchu Emperor Ch'ien Lung waged savage war against the Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes...
That peace had not accompanied coalition soon became evident. In an ill-timed visit to North-West Frontier Province, Nehru was met at Peshawar airdrome by 5,000 Moslem sympathizers, armed with spears and guns. His caravan of armored cars was stoned. Tribesmen insulted him by walking out on his speeches. Enraged, the Pandit called them "pitiful pensioners," an allusion to the fact that Britain pays them annual tribal subsidies to be nice. Gleefully, the League's newspaper Dawn editorialized that the Pandit should be made "honorary propaganda secretary of the Moslem League...
Last week Allah's Brother spoke. The Qashqai and neighboring Bakhtiari tribesmen fought Government forces along 140 miles of the Persian Gulf coast, attacked the port of Bushire, entered the outskirts of Shiraz. Harried Premier Ahmad Gavam sent a five-man mission to the threatened capital to talk peace terms with Nasser Khan's leaders...
With or without British backing, Nasser Khan's expert cavalrymen (more than 10,000 strong) and their 150,000 fellow tribesmen might easily win concessions from Teheran. Most likely outcome: local autonomy for conservatives in the south, like that given last spring to leftists in the north...