Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Washington and London withheld recognition, many officials clung to the hope that Zanzibar would not in fact turn out to be another Cuba. They insisted that President Abeid Karume was a determined African nationalist, not a Communist. And though U.S. intelligence sources were certain "Field Marshal" John Okello had been trained in Cuba, it was becoming increasingly clear that he wielded little power in the new government. Last week Okello was back at his broadcasting chores, warning civilians to lay down their guns. "Otherwise," he bellowed in his own arresting argot, "you will see how we hang people...
Bows & Arrows. The transition was swift and bloody. Led by a fanatical Uganda-born and Cuban-trained "field marshal" named John Okello, 27, a ragtag, 600-man army carrying pangas, bows and arrows raided two police armories. Then the rebels swept into Zanzibar Town before dawn, passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...
Okello quickly took to the radio, boasting and threatening like a mad witch doctor. "It is I, the field marshal, who speaks," he boomed, posturing in his specially designed black uniform. "The power behind me is 999,999,000. I shall take severe measures, 88 times more severe than my predecessors. Anyone looting even a bar of soap will be liable to jail for no less than eight years. I can make 100 grenades in an hour...
...White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights. According to rank, hundreds of other comrades were billeted in tents, schools and stately homes vacated by departing settlers. Trouble was, nearly everyone claimed to have been a "field marshal." After talking to scores of happy warriors, newsmen reported that they had found only one admitted enlisted man. He gave his rank as Regimental Sergeant Major, Atomic...
...Ceremony. Although Kenya's vicious Mau Mau long ago stopped fighting, many were still hiding out in the green-black forests on the slopes of Mount Kenya. All week they drifted back-"Field Marshal" Mwariama and 50 assorted "generals." The foreign representatives arriving along with the Mau Mau ranged from Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi to India's Indira Gandhi and U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Also from the U.S., as guests and entertainers, came Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba.* There were balls, garden parties, receptions, the laying of cornerstones, and the presentation of gifts...