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...longtime Moi opponents and disgruntled former Moi allies known as the National Rainbow Coalition, sniffs victory. The united front is proving popular with voters. A recent poll gave the coalition two-thirds support. But it too has strong connections to Moi's inner circle. Its presidential candidate, Mwai Kibaki, 71, who was injured in a car accident last week, was Moi's deputy until 1988. George Saitoti, who was Vice President until just a few months ago when Moi tapped Uhuru for the top job, is another prominent kanu name who now opposes his old boss. More former Moi confidants...
...attempt to advocate a capitalist model worldwide is unrealistic, some contended, because not all poor countries are capable of developing in the way the West's industrialized nations did. "Times are different, and governments have to take a positive role in all kinds of programs," said Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's Vice President. "Even if it were true [that rising standards of living lead to reduced population growth], the time schedule is 100 or 150 years. No one has the right to ask the developing nations to wait...
Laments Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's Vice President: "Higher oil prices mean there is less for everything else." The LDCs will also suffer a decline in demand for their exports as the industrialized countries fall into recession...
...from 12.5% to 6%. Oil-fueled inflation is raging. Taiwan's wholesale prices rose 3.5% last year, but are expected to jump 16% this year; at least ten points of the total are directly attributable to increased energy costs. Many Third World leaders echo Kenya's Kibaki: "We have had to postpone vitally needed development projects. We are not importing any nonessentials...
...would not make too much of it. A member of the minority Kalenjin tribal group, arap Moi will be particularly dependent on three powerful figures who belong to the dominant Kikuyu tribe: Minister of Natural Resources Mbiyu Koinange, 71, Attorney General Charles Njonjo, 58, and Finance Minister Mwai Kibaki, 47, whom arap Moi straightaway appointed as his Vice President. That troika, along with Kenyatta, has plotted Kenya's pro-Western, pro-capitalist course for the past several years. Their support guaranteed arap Moi's unopposed selection by a caucus of the country's only party, the Kenya...