Word: kenya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death by a mob in Somalia after U.N. forces attacked an alleged stronghold of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's. Although he died young, Eldon left a startling record of his life: 17 journals full of collages, layers of photographs, clippings, writings and other scraps. Eldon had grown up in Kenya, led a relief mission to Mozambique, worked in New York City as a graphic designer, traveled extensively, written a book and started his own photography business. Now his mother Kathy Eldon and Chronicle Books have sifted through the journals and published the best of them as The Journey...
...Tanzania. Museveni told TIME that before U.S. ambassador Michael Southwick left Kampala at the end of July, he delivered a "verbal note" warning Uganda against exercising a military option in Burundi. Says Museveni: "I ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap Moi, or the U.S. would "drop him like a hot potato." Though his antipathy for Moi is common knowledge, Museveni has lately bent over backward to bring Moi into the East African Cooperation, an off-again, on-again economic...
...Meru region of central Kenya isn't the sort of place most TV producers might find themselves making a movie-of-the-week, but then Robert Halmi Sr., 73, isn't the kind of guy who keeps busy churning out projects with names like Abduction of Innocence: A Moment of Truth Movie. While overseeing the production of an upcoming ABC movie on the explorers Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone near Mount Kenya recently, Halmi hired a group of Masai tribesmen as extras. Just as the scene in which they were to participate had begun shooting, a busload of American...
Indeed, Halmi, who runs his company out of Manhattan and divides his time between his town house there, his estate in Kenya and a home in Marbella, rarely even spends the night in Los Angeles when he has business in that city. "I don't want to have breakfast and everybody is talking about deals," he says...
DIED. ELSPETH HUXLEY, 89, prolific British author who returned repeatedly, in person and evocative prose, to the African landscapes of her childhood; in Tetbury, England. Huxley grew up in Kenya hunting game, playing polo and observing the Kikuyu servants--memories she revived to popular acclaim in The Flame Trees of Thika...