Word: tribesmen
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...echoes of Angola are unmistakable: a prolonged and bitter civil war, a Soviet airlift of arms in support of an unstable military regime, increasing numbers of Russian and Cuban advisers, ragtag battalions of tribesmen bloodying each other with modern weapons supplied by outside powers. Now the battlefield is Ethiopia and the high-stakes pawn is the strategic Horn of Africa, which commands the shipping routes through the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...
...socialist government controls the mining and export of jade; in fact, much of the trade is operated by chieftains of eastern Burma's fiercely independent Shan state, Chinese warlords left over from Kuomintang forces that fled south from China in the late 1940s and various tribesmen in southern Burma who have never acknowledged the rule of Rangoon. All these groups long depended for most of their cash income not on jade but on the rake-off from the lucrative opium trade that originates in the mountain poppy fields of the Golden Triangle of Laos, Burma and Thailand. Now, with...
...teachings of its founder W. Cameron Townsend, S.I.L. teams have been seeking out tiny, isolated tribes in remote corners of the world. With a little help from tape recorders, phonetics and the science of linguistics, they create written language out of the primitive spoken word; eventually they teach the tribesmen how to read primers written in the vocabulary they talk, and present them with a readable New Testament printed in their native tongue...
...thus opposed to anyone-and that includes S.I.L. personnel-who contributes to "keeping the Indians in their natural state." S.I.L. officers and many Brazilian linguists deny the charge, in part because S.I.L. teams, once they make a tribe literate in its own language, customarily proceed to teach the tribesmen Portuguese as well. In conjunction with several Brazilian universities, the mission is still negotiating to keep many of its linguistic teams in the field, perhaps with Brazilian linguists working alongside, at least until they have finished the four New Testaments now nearing completion and eight more that are expected...
...experience of Wycliffian Missionaries Al and Sue Graham. An S.I.L. field team, the Grahams first began following members of the remote Satere tribe around with tape recorders and 3-by-5 cards (for jotting down phonetic notes) in 1959. They are only now on the point of bringing the tribesmen to the joyful final moment of literacy and faith when their new Bibles are delivered...