Word: tribesmen
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...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...
...seduce and torment Debby; but such a world could only be shown on film by a master like Ingmar Bergman, who can create powerful, metaphorical dream-images that evoke our own hidden anxieties through the use of visual symbols. Page's portrayal of Debby's private gods as primitive tribesmen--who induce her to mutilate herself because she poisons other people--implies that she is possessed by these gods, rather than the expressions of selfhatred that Green shows them to be. The jolting images of insanity, in which the gods suddenly appear brandishing blood-stained knives and howling, only momentarily...
...with the great drought and famine in Africa's Sahel, the band of impoverished land across the Sahara's southern flank. More than 100,000 people perished before the rains finally came in 1974, and that was not the end of the tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of tribesmen remain in camps, and the desert's encroachment has not halted. Senegal told the U.N. meeting that it feared its coastal capital, Dakar, would soon be engulfed...
...additional 1,000 leave each month. Thousands of others actively oppose the regime; as a result, nearly half of Laos, including much of the fertile Mekong Plain, is contested by insurgents. TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss reports that in the north, some 4,500 fiercely independent Meo hill tribesmen operate out of the former CIA base in Long Cheng. Although they have only 3,000 rifles and a dwindling cache of ammunition, they have made most of the mountainous area uninhabitable for Communist troops. Blia Ya Moi, a former leader of the anti-Communist forces, explained to DeVoss that...
...Marxism will continue to knock on our door, but that is of no consequence. It is the terrorists who, supported by Marxism, come into Rhodesia and go out into the trust lands [black areas] to gain the support of the local tribesmen on the ground. Without that support, terrorists can't operate. You would not eliminate pressures from outside, but every country in the world copes with these. It's the terrorism within our country that we have got to cure...