Word: mau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Youth Rally at Nairobi last week was interrupted by the sudden appearance of four rangy Africans. Each was clad in animal skins, armed with sharp-bladed pangas and wearing his hair in long braids smeared with red mud - the fighting insignia of the Mau Mau terrorists. The crowd fell silent as the four approached the dais where sat Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta and his honored guest, Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. With his lumbering, elephant walk, Kenyatta descended from the dais, pushed through his startled security guards, and greeted the Mau Mau. "Kenya is free...
...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...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Something of Value, the screen version of Robert Ruark's Mau Mau novel, with Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier, Dana Wynter and Wendy Hiller...
...striving toward Negro goals in these fields, Roy Wilkins must often tolerate wild men even within his own organization. Perhaps the most outspoken of these "Mau Mau," as they are called by responsible civil rights leaders, is the N.A.A.C.P.'s Cecil Moore in Philadelphia. Moore pours his venom on everyone: "The Urban League was created to be a beggar. CORE is made up of an infinitesimal number of Negroes and an even lesser number of frustrated whites who are trying to salve their guilt. Half of all social workers are queer...
Only a few years ago, Kenya's whites raged against Jomo Kenyatta as the bloodthirsty founder of Mau Mau. In 1961, a governor of Kenya labeled Kenyatta "a leader to darkness and death." On a London visit in 1962, Kenyatta was pelted with rotten eggs by white extremists brandishing placards reading, "Hang Kenyatta!" Yet last week, as his country's newly elected Prime Minister, Kenyatta was a hero to most of Kenya's remaining white farmers...