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...member House, Odinga's revolt was the first serious challenge to the political unity on which the Mzee (Old Man) has based his rule. Kenyatta's answer was to cut Odinga down to size, and his slices were as quick, neat and deadly as those of a Mau Mau panga...
There was a time when Kenyans solved their political problems with the panga, a two-foot-long bush knife that the Man Mau terrorists wielded to bloody effect against British rule. Independence and parliamentary government demand more subtle solutions. Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British once jailed as the master of the Mau Mau, has been quick to adapt...
...controversial coach. Russell would be controversial in any color. Often arrogant, usually angry, always outspoken, he is a born boat rocker-"all hung up," in the words of his close friend and archrival, Wilt Chamberlain. He named his four-year-old daughter Kenyatta after Jomo Kenyatta, the onetime Mau Mau leader and current President of Kenya. He has called pro basketball "a child's game," insisted that "it isn't incumbent upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids but my own," refused to sign autographs because "I owe the public the same thing...
...account of De Gaulle's politics but a kind of personal political devotional-Mauriac, 80, tries to explain just what it is about De Gaulle that commands his fealty. He attests that he is not obsessed with De Gaulle, but, unhappily, this does not prove to be true: Mau-riac's quivering admiration simply is too great to be contained. The reader never really grasps what lies behind the De Gaulle mystique; he is merely reassured in passage after adulatory passage that it is there like a towering, providential Alp, and that De Gaulle is correct when...
...African leaders seem safe, at least for the time being. Foremost among them is Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, 73, former Mau Mau chieftain who is now revered throughout the land as Mzee...