Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the Prisoner of Zenda. His wacky tales of life in the Italian submarine service (he learned his English by sneaking up behind U.S. warships and watching the recreation movies), of golf games in Tanganyika (the course went up the side of Kilimanjaro; he shot a 77 and four Mau Mau), were not the product of an overheated Latin imagination. He has never been nearer to Italy than the pasticcerie of Manhattan's West Side, where he grew up. Guido Panzini's real name is Pat Harrington Jr. Now 29, he came to TV via Fordham, the U.S.A.F...
...late that African nationalism is the coming thing, Africa's Asians are now trying to come to terms with it. In Kenya, Indian members of the Legislative Council have joined with Labor Leader Tom Mboya against the whites. But the fact remains that a few years ago the Mau Mau were just as ready to dismember Asians as Europeans (though Nehru blindly urged Kenya's Indians to support the Mau Mau "liberation army"), and that in some of the recent riots in Nyasaland, Indians and their shops were the chief victims. "We are like a football," says...
...Africans put behind barbed wire after the worst of the Mau Mau uprising seven years ago, about 900 are still in Kenya's four remaining detention camps. Many of them, still marked by the blood-oath fanaticism of the old days, are considered cases more in need of psychiatric care than punishment. But last week the father of the terror, bearded London-and Moscow-educated Jomo Kenyatta, the notorious "Burning Spear" feared by whites and Kikuyu tribesmen alike, was let out of jail. He had served his seven-year sentence, with 28 months off for good behavior...
Kenyatta was not yet a free man. From his cell near the Sudan border, he and five Mau Mau extremists were hustled under close guard to the tiny government outpost of Lodwar. There, in the empty, arid northern frontier district, 216 miles from the nearest town, Kenyatta will live in exile in two rooms, cooking his own government-supplied food. He may roam the local area, but must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will...
...captured Mau Mau document vowed that those who tried "our leader" should be tied with sinews taken from their own ribs, and that "who assists the whites he must be castrated. We must take out his eyes and then hold him for seven days and then we will cut his head off and see if the whites can bring him back to life...