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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kenya People's Union (KPU) were organized along strictly tribal lines. One of KANU's brightest stars, for example, was Tom Mboya, the brilliant young Minister for Economic Planning-and a Luo. In recent years, however, both party memberships have become increasingly polarized. Mboya's assassination last July widened the rift. A Kikuyu was found guilty of Mboya's murder, and ugly rumors persist that high-ranking KANU leaders instigated the slaying. At Mboya's funeral, Kenyatta's car was stoned. Fearful of further Luo unrest, the Kikuyu resumed the Mau Mau-like oath...
When full-scale national election campaigning began three months ago, the ruling Liberal coalition was expected to have little difficulty protecting its majority of 38 in the 125-seat Parliament. Last week, with the final votes still being counted, it was apparent that the Liberals held power-but only just. In the closest tally in years, the opposition Labor Party seemed likely to trim Prime Minister John Gorton's comfortable margin to at best a half-dozen seats...
Most U.S. campuses reported a lull on the peace front last week. Combat was light and scattered; it was a time for R & R between Viet Nam protests. While some participants in the Oct. 15 Moratorium concentrated on classwork, others planned for the Nov. 15 march on Washington. Even so, a few campuses had troubles that seemed big to them if not to headline writers. Items: >At Vassar College, about 30 black women students seized part of the administration building at 3:20 a.m., locked themselves inside and vowed to "stop the school" until their demands for a black-studies...
Superintendent Murphy, who had come to the district 22 years ago as a principal, resigned immediately. The teachers demanded the firing of everybody connected with the bugging, and the embarrassed board started an investigation. Last week it reported its findings: Rittersdorf had planted the bugs on orders from Murphy. School Board President Steve Vlahon had learned of the bugs and ordered Murphy to remove them; Murphy had not done...
...weaponry. As a patriotic duty in World War II, for instance, the school's electronics wizards perfected the radar that foiled Hitler's bombers. Now duty has become a Faustian dilemma. In the age of antiwar dissent, M.I.T. still gets more money from the Pentagon-$108 million last year -than any other U.S. university. The result has thrust M.I.T. to the forefront of a growing national debate: What role, if any, shall universities play in war research...