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...Prime Minister Milton Obote, badly in need. For one thing, he needed to get his hands on the eleven truckloads of Red Chinese weapons that had been intercepted while sneaking through Kenya on their way to him from Tanzania. He also needed to spring their 47-man escort, whom outraged President Jomo Kenyatta had ordered tried for arms smuggling. More important, he needed to patch up the three nations' common market, which the arms scandal had nearly destroyed...
...President Jomo Kenyatta found the whole affair too muddy-especially in view of police reports that an even larger convoy had probably traveled earlier over the same road. Kenyatta, who recently refused a shipload of Russian arms for his own army, ordered the convoy confiscated, arrested its 47-man escort on charges of arms smuggling...
...whirled through a hectic six-day goodwill visit -her first trip to the U.S. At a ball celebrating Danish Week, she danced a quiet fox trot with her honor guard of four West Point cadets, and looked unflustered when she turned out to be taller than her official escort, Carl Michaelsen, president of the Danish American Society, Inc. Through it all she smoked filter-tip cigarettes, showed off a high-fashion wardrobe that she herself helped to stitch, regally declined to employ her fluent English for public speeches, and set a lovely example of how a world figure...
...informed by military authorities in the Dominican Republic that American lives are in danger," said the President. "I have ordered the Secretary of Defense to put the necessary American troops ashore in order to give protection to hundreds of Americans who are still in the Dominican Republic and to escort them safely back to this country. This same assistance will be available to the nationals of other countries, some of whom have already asked for our help...
...Fellow in the Flashbulbs. The burdens are subtly troublesome. There is the escort problem. The charming partner, or the attractive bachelor she might like to dance with, is not likely to be the man on her arm as the limousine arrives at the theater, or wherever. The fellow in the flashbulbs has to be an old knight in shining armor, such as Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman -someone of national stature, mature dignity and no aura of romance...