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...assistant professors for next fall are Victoria D. Alexander, who studies the sociology of culture; Kinuthia Macharia, a native of Kenya who studies Third World development; Francie Ostrower, who is interested in the structure of elite groups; Tony Tam, born in Hong Kong and a scholar of social movements and organizations. Yasemin Soysal, a native of Turkey, writes about labor importing countries and will not arrive at Harvard until...
Alexander and Soysal are completing their dissertations at Stanford University, while Ostrower and Tam will receive their Ph.Ds from Yale University and the University of Chicago, respectively. Macharia received his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Month. The government, insisting that it had paid him only to testify, not to lie, promptly put Macharia on trial for signing a false affidavit. In its own defense it argued that some sort of inducement was necessary to get testimony, since 36 potential witnesses against Kenyatta had been murdered...
Once again the prosecution was up against Kenyatta's flamboyant old defense counsel, Denis Nowell Pritt, Q.C., this time representing Macharia. He would bring forth evidence, said Pritt, that would make him ashamed of being English. At one point he melodramatically exclaimed; "I think I may be physically...
When the prosecutor produced an unpublished manuscript in which Macharia accused Kenyatta of being "the 100% leader of the Communist Party in Africa" and a man who had his own private Gestapo to kill enemies, Macharia insisted that the government had paid him ?29 a month to write such lies. Finally Pritt called Kenyatta himself...