Word: kilimanjaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foolhardy-in effect, an African Bay of Pigs. The pilot of an East African Airways DC-9, for example, was to have dropped a company of paracommandos into the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. Apparently he got lost during the night and was forced to land at the Kilimanjaro Airport. The plane was found the next morning, tires flat, fuel tank empty; the pilot and his troops had disappeared into the bush, unharmed but also unsuccessful. The rebels had also counted on large numbers of soldiers from Uganda's well-armed 12,000-man army joining in the rebellion...
...Kilimanjaro. Robert E. Lee Hardwick, a talk jockey on KVI in Seattle, has a different audience, the white middle class, and a different approach. He has taken a group up the slopes of Kilimanjaro and guided an expedition of gem hunters to the wilds of Idaho and Montana. Along the way, he has started a mock fan club of 15,000 for Seattle Pilots Shortstop Ray Oyler, who had the next to the lowest batting average in the American League one season, and he has led angry taxpayers to Olympia, the state capital, to press for tax reform...
Nyerere had a lot to show his guests, including a brand new international airport at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. He also took some of his visitors on a 20-minute train ride to mark the inauguration of a completed 312-mile section of the 1,150-mile TanZam railway, which Tanzania and neighboring Zambia are building with the help of a $406 million interest-free loan from China. Only one thing marred the festivities: a raid on Dar es Salaam by two mysterious planes that showered the capital with antigovernment leaflets. The airdrop was thought...
...famous phrase, one former colony after another set out on its own. buoyed by unreasonably high hopes. Few captured the heady mood more eloquently than Julius Nyerere, who marked Tanganyika's independence in 1961 by sending an expedition to plant a flag and a torch atop Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. "It will shine beyond our borders," said Nyerere, "giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation...
Some efforts to ranch herbivores have begun, albeit slowly. Tribesmen who live in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro have moved their cattle in order to save the area from overgrazing and give wild animals a chance to retrieve their natural habitat. Tanzania is marketing wild game for human consumption, while Kenya is considering the development of ranches for the commercial sale of cattle and wild animals. Even these small gains are being threatened. In Tanzania's Ngorongoro wildlife preserve, land has been opened for cattle grazing. In other preserves, tourists, and the facilities required to support them, pose...