Word: kenya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noted with disgust your front page story, "Kenya Bandits Chase First-Year-to-Be," The Harvard Crimson, April 16, 1994, by Jeffrey N. Gell. This is a typical example of the myopic, ignorant and racist attitude that the Western media often adopts in covering African affairs and to see such being promulgated in your paper makes a statement about the supposedly "educated" lot in North America...
...that Mr. Gell would choose the quote by a Dr. Albright that equates "primitive" to "...the only English they spoke was..." I would expect a member of an institution like Harvard to be between informed than one who uses English speech as the yardstick for civilization. It is not. Kenya has a wealth of indigenous languages which make up the rich cultural background that its citizens are very proud of. Just in case Mr. Gell's history has grown rust, English was not the language in use at the beginning of civilization...
...dawn on Saturday, 280 French paratroopers landed at Kigali airport. By nightfall, convoys carrying 170 of the 255 Americans in Rwanda had either approached or crossed the border into Burundi, where U.S. Marines dispatched from ships off Kenya awaited. The Marines, said a Pentagon official, had an "insertion-extraction" capability; but the Administration was at pains to describe their presence as precautionary. No Americans were reported hurt. Even if the foreigners are able to escape the killing, however, the future for native Rwandans seems likely to be as bloody as their past...
...result of the Albright attack, Gans says NOLS trips will no longer travel to the Masai-Mara area. Instead, student groups will spend more time around Mount Kenya, he says...
Albright, who was admitted to Harvard last spring but was asked to defer admission for a year, spent three months shearing sheep in Australia before joining the NOLS trip to Kenya...