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AFRICA (ABC, 7-11 p.m.). A four-hour special touching all the bases-sights (the Nile, Kilimanjaro, the Sahara, Sphinx, Congo, jungle), wildlife, entertainment, Miriam Makeba, a Kinshasa jazz band, political leaders (including Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta), history, sports, health, education, tribal life, race relations and so on. Gregory Peck is the narrator...
Though most of the soldiers, including Gowon and Ojukwu, had never fired a shot in battle before, both sides claimed victories and at week's end filled the air waves with confident reports. Meanwhile, a number of African leaders, among them Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, assembled hastily in Nairobi to issue an appeal for an armistice...
...Jomo Kenyatta wore a pink rosebud in his buttonhole. Julius Nyerere was decked out in a black pajama-style suit, and Milton Obote was all smiles. Standing in the Ugandan Parliament before a carved panel that depicted crested cranes, elephants, anteaters and gazelles, the three men lifted their champagne glasses in a toast that is often heard but all too seldom practiced these days in fractious Africa. "To unity!" cried the Presidents of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda...
...across the Saudi Arabian peninsula, perhaps hoping to add the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf to his coffers. His boardinghouse reach even stretches southward across the Gulf of Aden, where he is aiding Somali terrorists who lay claim to one-fourth of the northern territory of Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya. The Kenyan government, incensed by evidences of Egyptian aid to the rebels, called on Nasser to cease supplying them and said that it is ready to go to war with Somalia unless the border conflict ceases...
...Kariuki, a member of the Kenya Parliament, is a close associate of Jomo Kenyatta, who is one of MRA's admirers according to the movement's literature...