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While most attempts at regional co operation in Africa have been feeble and fleeting, three leaders have devoted considerable time and brainpower to planning an effective togetherness. Ken ya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Uganda's Milton Obote spent many months working out the details of their East African Economic Community, which has just started operating. Already, foreign businessmen are eyeing it with interest - and other African politicians with a touch of envy...
With a quick change of hair style, posture and camera angle, he turns into a fire-breathing Jomo Kenyatta, a smug Queen Victoria or a lurching Foreign Secretary George Brown, sputtering: "I'm having to solve the Viet Nam war, and you don't see pictures of me doing that, do you? No! You see pictures of me doing the hokey-pokey!" In a recent takeoff on BBC documentaries, he played a mustachioed producer, a brandy-guzzling announcer, an unemployed lathe operator-and the entire British Cabinet. In last week's skit, Bird was a lisping Field...
Such African leaders as Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere claimed to have more pressing business at home. All the Arab chiefs stayed away because several of the black African countries had not supported their demand for an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory. But, surprisingly, more heads of state showed up than at last year's meeting in Addis Ababa, among them Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Ghana's Joseph Ankrah and Uganda's Milton Obote...
...nomadic for centuries, have been settled along with them in rows of dome-shaped huts that are protected from terrorists by barbed wire and Kenyan troops armed with Bren guns. At the same time, with the ?3,000,000 a year allotted for the security and pacification effort, Jomo Kenyatta's government has done much to upgrade the nomads' lives. It has dug wells, built schools and hospital wards and provided veterinarians for sickly cattle...
...tactics are paying off. Taking advantage of an amnesty offer from Kenyatta, 340 shifta recently surrendered. Many of them have been entrusted with jobs in the army and police department. By last week, despite the provocative broadcasts from Somalia, terrorism seemed to be under control...