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...just another American innocent abroad? It certainly seemed so. "They live in that?" he questioned incredulously, as he squatted in front of a hut built from cow dung in northern Kenya. "Are they happy?" he asked, studying a group of Rendille tribesmen resting under a tree. He then wanted to know, "What do they do ail day long?" Told that they tended cattle, he persisted: "Yes. But what do they do while they're tending cattle?" And later he wondered whether "these local people have a pagan religion." To such questions posed by California Governor Jerry Brown, his African...
...more serious danger is that the country may slide into anarchy. Government forces have been barely able to suppress uprisings by rebellious Turkoman and Kurdish tribesmen in the northern provinces. Although petroleum production rose above 4 million bbl. a day last week, the oilfields around Ahwaz are still largely in the hands of dissident workers' councils, which have held numerous sit-ins to protest low wages and poor working conditions. Some 3.5 million Iranians (one-third of the work force) are unemployed; thousands of them milled around the ministry of labor in Tehran last week, demonstrating for jobs. Meanwhile...
Back came reports from more than two dozen correspondents, who visited medinas and mosques, and interviewed sultans and emirs, desert tribesmen and professors of Islamic culture. The result is this week's Special Report on Islam, a sweeping exploration of one of the world's great faiths, with side trips through the life of Muhammad, the words of the Koran, and the ancient justice of the Shari'a (Islam's code...
...primitive conditions, the Mentaweian Indians of Siberut Island off Indonesian Sumatra faced a battery of culture shocks. First they got hold of guns to replace their bows and arrows and began shooting every bird and animal they saw, destroying the very wildlife on which they depended. Then these pagan tribesmen were themselves harassed by Muslim police, who cut their long, plaited hair and took away their beads. Worse yet, Filipinos and Japanese who were imported to work Siberut's newly opened logging concessions began dragging Mentaweian girls aboard their boats as easy rape victims...
...plucky upper-class Englishman. In the days before the sun set on the British Empire, his ancestors might have rattled a few sabers and issued an edict in the name of the Queen. But Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 42, re-established order in a subtler way. After studying the troubled tribesmen, he launched a program to teach them fishing and chicken and pig farming. That helped restore their self-sufficiency and, equally important, their selfesteem...