Word: kenyan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, the Kenyan aristocrats closed ranks to protect one of their own, though most suspected Broughton of the crime. A friend gave him an alibi. Diana hired a brilliant defense lawyer from South Africa. After Broughton was acquitted of the murder, he received a cable from the Earl of Carnarvon and Montgomery (HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON WINNING A NECK CLEVERLY), and was invited to recuperate from the trial at the palace of the Maharajah of Jhopur. Still, the smell persisted. Thirty years after the crime, Fox persuaded three people to talk about the murder confessions Broughton had made to them before...
...pachyderms. Hunters steal into national parks at night and, using automatic weapons, snares and poisoned arrows, kill dozens of animals at a time. The elephants' tusks are cut off and the huge corpses left to rot. During 1976 alone, writes Künkel, the ivory from 23,360 Kenyan elephants was sold to dealers in Hong Kong. The photographer, however, is as relentless as the poachers, discovering the beasts in surprisingly graceful and poignant stances. Künkel's work also manages to reveal why elephants have such a hold on our imaginations. It is not only their...
Within six hours loyalists from the 12,500-member Kenyan army and the 1,800-member General Service Unit (a paramilitary police force) rallied to beat back the rebels and began to restore order. To be safe, Moi finally placed virtually every man in Kenya's air force under arrest...
Moreover, Kenya's $7 billion economy, long the strongest in East Africa, is in bad shape. At the root of the problem is the Kenyan birth rate of at least 3.9%, the world's highest, compared with .7% in the U.S. Only 15% of the country's land is arable, and, to make matters worse, the government's agriculture program has badly faltered. As a result, Kenya, once self-sufficient in food production, has become a chronic importer of expensive grains, including the daily staple, corn. Prices for the country's traditional exports (coffee...
Diplomatic analysts, especially those in Washington, were still expressing relief last week at the Moi government's survival. Among other things, the Kenyan port of Mombasa is a strategic port of call for the U.S. Indian Ocean fleet. Kenya gets $79.5 million a year in military and economic aid from Washington, and U.S. technicians are currently dredging Mombasa's harbor to make it a more effective base of operations for the Rapid Deployment Force. Warns one U.S. expert on Kenya: "We can take heart that the constitutional government restored order, but we can't blind ourselves...