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...injured, and 187 arrested. The cause, Locher and Wagner hinted persistently, lay in an organized conspiracy. Cleveland does have its Black Muslim Temple of Islam (No. 18). There was at least one representative of the pro-Castro Revolutionary Action Movement in town. A group called the J.F.K. House-for Jomo Freedom Kenyatta and John F. Kennedy-is suspected of running a Hough-headquartered training school in street warfare...
...time the returns were counted last week, Odinga was scorched. At issue were the 29 seats vacated by his adherents when they quit KANU last March. Jomo's KANU candidates, whose party symbol is a cockerel, captured twelve seats in the National Assembly and eight in the Senate. Odinga's KPU, represented on ballot sheets as a bull, won seven and two respectively. That left KANU with a plurality of 121 to 7 in the House and 39 to 2 in the Senate...
...claimed that if KPU failed to win all available seats it would be proof that the elections were rigged. "You can be a friend of Kenyatta's only if you crawl and cringe like a hyena," he cried. "He is a frightened man with a little heart." Jomo proved to be equally adept at badinage. At a rally in Nairobi, he warned that the dissidents were prepared to buy votes. "If these people offer money," he said, "you must know it is foreign money meant to undermine the sovereignty of our country. Beware of this political prostitution. Take...
Main target of Jomo's wrath was not Odinga but rather Bildad Kaggia, the lone Kikuyu in the KPU's Luo-dominated upper ranks. Kaggia, roared Kenyatta, was a captive of the Communists, a liar, a cheat and a lover of "black necks"-a derogatory Kikuyu reference to the darker-skinned Luo. Moreover, suggested Jomo in the ultimate Kikuyu insult, he suspected that Kaggia was not even circumcised. Kaggia was crushed by an 18,000-vote KANU plurality...
...face. Why should we have to come along behind them and pick up their butt ends?" The antiwhite line worked well in Luo country, but in the cities it fell as fiat as the African beer doled out by the gourdful at the polling places. Victory was just what Jomo had predicted. When the results were in, his triumphant KANU candidates feasted on roast oxen-a symbolic meal commemorating the KPU's decisive defeat...