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Garuda
In Hindu mythology, the bird (similar to a kite or eagle) on whom the god Vishnu rides. Garuda was a younger brother of Aruna, charioteer of the sun god Surya. His mother was enslaved by nagas (hence the emnity between kites and serpents) and was released only after Garuda brought the serpents an elixir of immortality. He is associated with royalty in several S.E. Asian countries.


Nahda
(Arabic: "Islamic Tendency Movement") Tunisian political party founded in 1981 by R. al-Ghannouchi and A. Mourou. Its platform calls for a fairer distribution of economic resources, multiparty democracy, and more religiosity in daily life, all through nonviolence. After 1984 the party was reorganized to operate clandestinely as well as publicly. Though the government of Z. Ben Ali has treated it less harshly than did that of H. Bourguiba, it remains illegal.


Nahua
Indian population of Mexico and Central America, of whom the Aztecs are the best known. Modern-day Nahua are agricultural, using the slash-and-burn technique and cultivating both common and private land. They are skilled weavers, using fibers of the maguey plant, wool, and cotton. Nahua parents and godparents have strong ties in a fictive kin relationship. Though they profess Roman Catholicism, the Nahua believe in witchcraft and recognize a variety of supernatural beings. See also Nahuatl language.


Yagoda
Soviet politician. A leader of the Cheka secret police (1920-24) and its successor, the OGPU (1924-34), and a close associate of J. Stalin, he organized the Soviet's forced-labor camps from 1930 and became a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee in 1934. As head of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs, or NKVD, he prepared the first of the Purge Trials (1936). In 1937 he was replaced as police chief by N. Yezhov and himself became a victim of the widespread purges. Accused of conspiracy, he was convicted at the third purge trial (1938) and executed.


yakuza
Japanese gangsters. Yakuza, who trace their roots back to ronin, often adopt samurai-like rituals and identify themselves with elaborate body tattoos. They engage in such organized-crime pursuits as extortion, blackmail, smuggling, prostitution, drugs, and gambling, and they control many restaurants, bars, trucking companies, and taxi fleets in Japanese cities. Their numbers today exceed 150,000; they are organized into more than 2,000 gangs, most affiliated under the umbrella of one of a dozen or fewer conglomerate gangs. Yakuza gangs are rigidly hierarchical, and the price for disappointing the gang is often to be forced to cut off one's own finger.

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