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...could offend Moslem teetotalers, or a disembodied human leg, which has connotations of cannibalism. In a few districts, no one was bold enough to present himself as a candidate; in almost all, dire threats were made against those who voted. For months, the south has been torn by a Mau Mau-like revolt among its 4,000,000 black tribesmen, who fear political domination by the 9,000,000 people of the mostly Arab and Moslem north...
Considering the daredevil way she operated, it came as no surprise. She once drove a Renault all the way from Argentina to Alaska, and the same idea occurred to her while covering the war as a freelancer in Viet Nam. Why not drive from Ca Mau, at the nation's southern tip, to the Demilitarized Zone in the north along 600 miles of ragged road and Viet Cong? In December she started out, her car sandbagged as a defense against land mines...
...Mau Tsuh-doong...
...alone. But the biggest prize last week fell to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has been patrolling South Viet Nam's coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition-off Ca Mau Peninsula. When the freighter refused to heave to, Point Grey opened up with 81-mm. mortars, ran the suspect aground...
...called Parliament into emergency session, rammed through a constitutional amendment forcing the rebels to resign their seats and run for office again, this time against KANU's powerful opposition instead of with its support. Then, before a mass rally in Nairobi last week, he produced four former Mau Mau leaders who told the shocked crowd that Odinga had offered them nearly $500,000 to return to the forests to fight Kenyatta. "If you play around with me," warned the Mzee, "you'll be playing around with a lion." So saying, he reshuffled his Cabinet, putting pro-West moderates...