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Rebellious Tribesmen. Nonetheless, the incident was bound to complicate relations between the two subcontinent neighbors, who share a porous 1,500-mile border. In recent weeks there have been rumors in Dacca - vehemently denied in New Delhi - of border incursions by Indian troops. One Dacca version is that India wants to stir up unrest among Bangladesh's 10 million Hindus, thus encouraging them to flee to India as they did in 1971. India, according to this scenario, would use the ensuing chaos as a pretext for launching a full-scale invasion. Foreign diplomats in Dacca regard the rumor...
Franco's entire career, from 1920 until his death, represents an unrelieved campaign against political and social democracy in Spain and elsewhere. His initial fame arose from his part in the 1921 war against tribesmen in Spanish Morocco. In 1934 the rightist Spanish government called on him to suppress an insurrection of miner's in northern Spain; his bloody tactics earned him the title "butcher of Asturias...
...Zionism resolution last week were scarcely qualified to cast the first stone. Idi Amin's Uganda is a notorious example: Asian citizens were summarily expelled and at least 50,000 Ugandans of various tribes have been murdered while Amin has promoted fellow Moslems and his own Kakwa tribesmen...
...seemed that it had. Madrid announced that it would complete a phased withdrawal of Spanish troops from the Sahara by Feb. 28, 1976 and share its administration of the territory until then with Morocco and Mauritania. The agreement also stipulates that the Sahara's 70,000 tribesmen be "consulted" about their future. But the accord in effect will allow Morocco and Mauritania to partition the territory between them...
...hand. He and Machebeuf had been reared during the reaction against anticlericalism that followed the French Revolution. Both welcomed the metal authority accompanying the westward reach of empire. Though Lamy by no means condoned the military's campaign of extermination against the Apaches and Navajos, he viewed the tribesmen as murderous savages. When his own wagon train was attacked at an Arkansas River crossing in 1867, he and the caravan's military leader shared command in the kind of seven-hour battle beloved by Western film makers. Throughout, the bishop conscientiously joined in the rifle fire...