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...delegates who gathered in Nairobi last week for the fourth General Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches were shunted away from the organization's fancy new headquarters on Waiyaki Way. Instead, they met in an unpretentious teachers' college outside the Kenyan capital. A conference hall and chapel, intended to serve as an imposing centerpiece for Africa's largest ecumenical body, is still unfinished for lack of funds...
...days are more likely to be yachts and sports cars than beads and mirrors. In many subSaharan nations, a favorite scheme is to create a lucrative job in a project for an official's relatives or friends. For years the British-based Lonrho Ltd. trading house kept its Kenyan operations running smoothly with President Jomo Kenyatta's son-in-law as its head. When Kenyatta died in 1978, that connection no longer counted for much. Complains a foreign businessman in Nairobi: "Now there is a whole new set of people to deal with-and they all are asking...
...guidance of the party's longtime chief ideologist, Mikhail Suslov. TASS serves as the backbone of Soviet propaganda. The bluntness of TASS's bias often works against it. For example, the Soviets in 1963 provided, free of charge, equipment for receiving TASS bulletins to the fledgling Kenyan news agency. The Kenyans, however, soon started using the equipment to receive Britain's Reuters wire service as well. A former Kenyan journalist says he was supposed to give equal play to both news services, but that the TASS material arrived days later than Reuters, and was too late...
...close examination of the photo finish revealed that ADAM DIXON had been nipped by New York's Luis Ostolozaga. But the run attracting the most attention from the Harvard contingent was BUCK LOGAN's 8:44.36 in the 2-mile event. Though only good enough for second place behind Kenyan star Solomon Chebor. Logan's time was almost a school record. When converted to a hand time, his electronically recorded effort became the source of controversy. With the conversion factor, Logan's time tops the Harvard record set by DOUGLAS HARDIN in 1968, but the official verdict holds that Hardin...
...steeplechase of his career, appeared to have the race in hand, leading by as much as 50 meters. But Malinowski mounted a stirring comeback and overtook Bayi with about 150 meters remaining. His time was 8:09.7, the fastest in the world this year and only 4.3 sec. behind Kenyan Henry Rono's alltime best. "I have been waiting for this gold medal for 13 years," declared Malinowski. "Now my only goal is to establish a world record...