Word: fundikira
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably the only line anywhere whose chief is just that: its chairman, Chief Abdullah Said Fundikira, 47, is a Cambridge-trained agricultural expert, a onetime Justice Minister of Tanganyika and, according to Wanyamwezi tribal lore, the reincarnation of a centuries-old rainmaker. Despite the chief's lineage, skies could hardly be clearer for him and his airline...
Intercontinental for Keeps. Fundikira is "proud that we have been setting the airline pace for the rest of black Africa," and now he is stepping it up. The international operations, which already include service to London, Paris, Rome, Bombay, Karachi and Aden, have just been expanded with flights to Athens. And after its fourth VC-10 arrives this year, E.A.A. will move on to Bangkok, then to Hong Kong, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland...
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