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Angry Letters. Leading the attack is a generation of young Kenya urbanites who look upon the dowry as institutionalized blackmail. In Nairobi, the angry young men have formed a group called the Kenya Dowry Reformation Movement, and are flooding Nairobi pa pers with letters demanding an end. "The Attorney General should abolish this old and unwanted practice," wrote one reformer. Another called for a general protest strike...
...personal power" was over, said the announcer, and "Ben Bella would meet the fate reserved by history to all despots." A communique signed by Boumedienne charged Ben Bella with an arm-long list of faults: "bad management, waste of public funds, instability, demagogy, anarchy, lying, improvisation, mystification, threats, blackmail and uncertainty about tomorrow." In an aside to the Afro-Asian delegates, Boumedienne said the show would go on as planned but now it would not be "cynically exploited by one man for his personal ends to the detriment of the country's higher interests...
...Citizens have absolutely no voice in the disposition of the Federal and city taxes they pay. Every year the D.C. Commissioners must prostrate themselves before the House District Committee and beg for minimum amounts of money for schools, hospitals, welfare, etc. They must submit to blackmail by the Committee, such as when, a couple of years ago, the Commissioners were warned not to issue a fair housing ordinance upon pain of not receiving an appropriation for schools and hospitals; or when last year the District Committee insisted on retaining the privilege of sifting through the traffic tickets and taking...
...undercover information collection had recently been discovered" in their industry; the survey also found that executives under 50 are less concerned than their elders about the ethics of pirating and spying. Some firms go so far as to hire professional spies, plant informers inside other companies, bribe or blackmail employees for information, tap telephones, even sort rubbish. "I'm picking up a couple of barrels of trash a night now," a California private detective admitted last week. "The way they use these carbons only once now, it's a cinch." Not all of the espionage work is underhand...
France wants an independent nuclear arsenal, Alphand said, "to deter a potential enemy, in case he decides to blackmail us in exceptional cases when our interests and your should not be exactly the same." He suggested that the French nuclear venture "cannot but interfere with the strategy of our adversaries, and therefore make it more complicated for them...