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...challenge to Mboya's leadership revolves around the famous exile in faraway Lodwar village. The legendary Kenyatta remains the idol of every Kenya African. If Kenyatta is angry with Mboya's compromise, Tom is in for trouble, for, after all, he is a mere youngster in the eyes of some Kikuyu politicians, who were fighting for African rights before Mboya was born. Cautiously, Tom says: "I have never represented myself as a replacement for Kenyatta. When he comes back, we will all accept him as our leader," and he adds: "It does not make much difference...
Banda's name was a household word in Nyasaland, for from faraway London he had produced a torrent of fiery pamphlets, messages and speeches in the cause of Nyasa independence. Last year, when nationalist riots spread through the colony, the government brought in troops and declared a state of emergency, accusing Banda of being the cause of it all. Banda denies he counseled violence, but he shouts: "We mean to get out of their damned federation. One cannot exclude violence. Africa is on the move. You cannot stop us!" Britain's Colonial Office wants Banda released, but Nyasaland...
...same time, U.S. Government and industry pumped $1 billion into Latin America last year alone, and "our outstanding loans and investments in Latin America now exceed $11 billion." Then he blasted the Kremlin's recent unguided missives of propaganda aimed at Cuba: "Very recently in a faraway country that has never known freedom-one which today holds millions of humans in subjugation-impassioned language has been used to assert that the United States has held Latin America in a colonial relationship." Snapped Ike: "This is a blatant falsehood"-and he pointed to the U.S. record in Spanish-speaking Puerto...
Tremors echoed in Washington this week from an atomic explosion atop a steel-lattice tower in the faraway Sahara Desert. France became the fourth nation in history to explode a nuclear device (see FOREIGN NEWS). France would not, for some years to come, achieve a militarily significant nuclear capability without U.S. help, but her determination to be a nuclear power at whatever cost raised, or complicated, some touchy problems for U.S. policy. Foremost among them: When and how-if at all-should the U.S. arm its NATO allies with nuclear weapons...
...leaders to see to it that their own communities build adequate schools and that the children in them are instructed according to standards of excellence. Federal grants might help to raise salaries and speed classroom construction in lagging areas of the U.S., but essentially the problem is one that faraway Washington is incapable of solving...