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...women's 400-meter relay teams won gold medals with Olympic records. The U.S. men's 1600-meter relay team easily out-distanced the Kenyan squad in record time for another gold medal...
...after they got here"). Seltzer recruited a Dutch crew and 21 African assistants. The expedition could have saved thousands of dollars and two weeks' time by flying directly into the lake from Nairobi. But Holden and Seltzer ruled that out as cheating. So off they trekked through the Kenyan wastelands...
...Uhuru," independence, in 1963 ushered in a new Kenya. Africans became the wielders of political power; Asians were given the choice between Kenyan citizenship or the full rights of British subjects. Some Asians, particularly the Ishmaeli community, put their hopes in an integrated society and applied for Kenyan citizenship. But the majority of Asians, roughly 100,000 out of about 160,000, took the British option. With vivid memories of the slaughter of Arabs on the nearby island of Zanzibar in 1962, they feared future instances of African racism and xenophobia. Also, it was clear that the sluggish economy could...
...panicked exodus of Asians trying to beat the deadline dealt the Kenyan economy a severe blow. Demand has dropped sharply along with heavy capital losses--an average of 5000 pounds follows every Asian family that leaves Kenya...
...Somalia Government's cattle transactions with Kenya, the 16-month-old trade boycott came to an end. News of the resumed trade was released by Bruce Mckenzie, Kenya's minister for Agriculture, who said in Nairobi that the decision was in the spirit of Harambee (pulling together, a Kenyan national slogan) and ". . . [it] results directly from the Kinshasa agreement . . . to find ways to end the border dispute...