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Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of an ad hoc Congo Reconciliation Commission set up by the Organization of African Unity, appealed to "all authorities in the Congo to do nothing that would be inhuman toward civilians in their custody...
...their success, the mercenaries remained in bad odor with the rest of black Africa. But Premier Moise Tshombe, in Nairobi for talks with the Congo Reconciliation Committee headed by Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, made it clear that though he wants black African help in quelling the rebellion, he would brook no "interference in the internal affairs" of his country. That seemed to mean the mercenaries would stay-for the time being at least...
Jovial Host. After playing host to all members of Parliament at his home in Nairobi, Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta jovially announced that he will ask Parliament for constitutional amendments that will make Kenya a one-party republic. If Parliament refused, he added, he would call a national referendum in November. Since his Kenya African National Union party (KANU) represents the nation's two largest tribal groups, there is little chance he would lose the referendum...
...established nation like Nigeria and Ghana. The narrator was a Harlem militiaman in the days of derring-do, but now he is full of "Well, honey's" and "byembys." The children at his knee are snotty little know-it-alls with African nationalist names: Jomo, Sekou, Mboya. But "Grandpa" fascinates them with stories of how Harlemites resisted all threats and blandishments, how they were impervious even to Radio Free Harlem, over which "Washington, D.C., Rose" seductively urged them to return to the comforts, clean suits and warm apartments of the Privileged People. Harlem's early heroes were...
...Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi...