Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plane & by Foot. Early this year, the Manhattan doctors started treating 24 Africans from remote parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. Most of the patients traveled to Nairobi and Kampala, some by hospital plane, others by ambulance or on shanks' mare, barefoot. They represented more than a dozen tribes; some spoke languages so obscure that a series of three interpreters was needed. More than half the patients had cancer of some kind in the head, but seven had cancer of the cervix, one of the greatest killers of African women...
Last week, with more patients under treatment by Kenya Surgeons Michael Wood and John K. Duff, and Kampala Surgeon Richard Trussell, U.S.-African doctors were trying to find what other forms of cancer would yield to the promising new technique...
Miss-hap. In Kampala, Uganda, the country's first "Miss Uganda" contest ended somewhat unhappily when one of the contestants had a miscarriage...
...Naked Truth. In Kampala, Uganda, John Musoke lay down in the street for a nap after too much celebrating one night, awoke next morning to find that someone had stolen every stitch of his clothing...