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Like many other leaders of new African nations, President Jomo Kenyatta has not found it easy to steer a middle course between East and West. His job has not been made easier by the activities of his own Vice President, Oginga Odinga, who admits that "Communism is like food to me" and has been trav eling through the countryside heaping Red-tinged scorn on Kenyatta's ties with the West...
Last week things reached a climax of sorts when Odinga, in his first direct attack on his President, rose at a rally on the shore of Lake Victoria to de clare that Kenyatta had fallen under imperialist influence and was all but taking his orders from the U.S. and Britain. It brought an outraged response from Kenyatta's Cabinet ministers, who called the attack "cheap politics" and "calculated to further the cause of Communism." Five party leaders, already angered by Odinga's role in Communist arms imports (TIME, April 23), signed a petition demanding his resignation from...
...first Kenyatta kept his counsel. Then he fired Odinga as chief Kenya delegate to this month's British Commonwealth Conference, and rose to speak about his young nation's direction...
Obote went straight to the Kenya State House, talked to Kenyatta all afternoon and all the next morning. When the press was finally called into the walnut-paneled conference room, Obote was the picture of contrition. Silently, he sat at Kenyatta's side while the old man-wearing a jaunty red rose in his lapel-read a "joint communique...
...hardly designed to bolster Obote's pride. "The Kenya government repeated its protest over the violations against Kenya's territorial integrity and the fact that all individuals arrested had committed offenses under Kenya law," announced Kenyatta. "The Prime Minister of Uganda reiterated his personal regrets, as well as those of his government, and tendered an apology for this unfortunate incident." For several sol emn minutes he rubbed Obote's nose in the mess, then announced that both arms and men would be handed over-"in view of the sincere apology, assurances and explanations given by the Uganda...