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...ideas were not always popular. Though South Sea tribesmen affectionately remembered her as "Miss Mark-it Mit," former Florida Governor Claude Kirk called her a "dirty old lady" after she appeared before a Senate committee hearing and urged decriminalization of marijuana smoking. Envious colleagues griped that Mead, who appeared on television talk shows to endorse everything from greater international cooperation to women's liberation, was "overexposed"; conservative academicians called Mead, who chaired or served on more committees than anyone could remember, an "international busybody." But young people loved her, partly, as Bohannan recalls, because "she never talked down...
...much mistreated and oft-massacred Indians of Brazil are an endangered human species. Almost their only guarantee of survival is the lands reserved for them by law, largely in the Amazon region, where many of these primitive tribesmen pursue a Stone Age way of life. Under the guise of "emancipating" the Indians, the Brazilian government has begun to remove their historic tribal lands from federal protection; last week a decree was sent to President Ernesto Geisel that ends official protection and gives the Indians title to their land. The rationale was that it would put the Indians on the same...
Even one Communist-educated intellectual allied to the regime pleads that his country is "not an apple" ready to fall to the Russians, and privately appeals to the U.S. to act like "a great power." But U.S. room for maneuver is as limited as the Afghans'. Conservative Muslim tribesmen in provinces bordering Pakistan have rebelled against government reforms; some air force squadrons, which strafed them last month, have been grounded by the arrest of pilots loyal to Qadir...
...Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...
...from a Tanzanian prison, who formed the SWAPO Democrats in opposition to Nujoma last month, and Herman Toivo Ya Toivo, one of SWAPO's founders, who has been in the South African maximum security prison on Robben Island for the past ten years. Toivo, popular with the Ovambo tribesmen who constitute the bulk of SWAPO membership; is no friend of Nujoma's. "His big problem is that he is no longer a major force within the country," says Shipanga. "He has been too long on the outside and too reluctant to go back except...