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...Obote, badly in need. For one thing, he needed to get his hands on the eleven truckloads of Red Chinese weapons that had been intercepted while sneaking through Kenya on their way to him from Tanzania. He also needed to spring their 47-man escort, whom outraged President Jomo Kenyatta had ordered tried for arms smuggling. More important, he needed to patch up the three nations' common market, which the arms scandal had nearly destroyed...
...Nairobi, Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta found the whole affair too muddy-especially in view of police reports that an even larger convoy had probably traveled earlier over the same road. Kenyatta, who recently refused a shipload of Russian arms for his own army, ordered the convoy confiscated, arrested its 47-man escort on charges of arms smuggling...
...Games. That brought an urgent telephone call from Uganda Internal Affairs Minister Felix Onama, who said it had all been an unfortunate mistake, demanded his convoy back. Kenyatta was in no mood to play games. After an emergency Cabinet meeting, he delivered a thinly veiled denunciation of both Uganda and Tanzania for "an act of criminal folly and a serious violation of Kenya's territorial integrity." When Uganda Premier Milton Obote telephoned to try to smooth things over, Kenyatta refused to speak to him. When a Tanzania spokesman announced airily that "this has nothing to do with us," Kenyatta...
Enraged, Tanzania and Uganda threatened to break up the common market unless Kenyatta handed over the arms, and only a hurried motion for adjournment prevented their delegates from walking out of a Central Legislative Assembly meeting in Nairobi. At week's end Assembly Secretary-General Dunstan Omari was frantically trying to arrange an emergency East African summit conference to repair the damage. His prospects were not improved by the announcement in Dares Salaam that the original owner of the arms, Chinese Communist Premier Chou Enlai, will pay a friendly visit to Tanzania early next month...
...Official takeover of the Lumumba Institute, thus frustrating its possible use as a Communist indoctrination center. Parliament resoundingly agreed as Mboya declared that Kenyatta's original plans for the Lumumba Institute had been "completely distorted," and that "we want to remove this impression that it is an ideological institute, because...