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...armor-plated British tankman who won the D.S.O. after Nazi General Erwin Rommel's smashing defeat at El Alamein, later led the famed "Desert Rats" (7th Armored Division) in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy, in postwar years fought his last campaign (1953-55) against Kenya's Mau Mau; of heart disease; in South Cheriton, England...
Last week came news that Kenyatta was expecting a shipment of Russian arms, but before anyone could jump to the conclusion that the former Mau Mau chieftain had thrown his lot in with the Communists, Security Minister Mungai rushed out a statement reassuring everyone that there was nothing pernicious about the deal. "Kenya will continue to buy arms and ammunition from West or East as long as they are suitable and carry the right price," he said...
Mzee, the "old one," as he likes to be called, was once a Communist, then leader of the bloody Mau-Mau rebellion, and finally the first Prime Minister of Kenya. It might have been those eight years in a damp jail cell that made him creak a bit as he dropped to his knees. But that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo...
...equipped with an ideological fervor so single-mindless that even the Birch Society might suspect he is some kind of nut. It seems that, thanks to "the college boys in striped pants and the eggheads in Washington, our government has become a joke all the way down into Mau-Mau territory"; the West is sure to "lose everything"-unless Tiger and his extragovernmental CIA can stanch a critical security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns out, have penetrated the British delegation, and so, in his inexorable way, does Tiger. The last Red head is blown...
...Mau Man days, may have felt somewhat embarrassed at his failure to bring about a "peaceful" solution to the hostage problem; though he condemned foreign intervention, he also called for continued "efforts at reconciliation" between the rebels and the Tshombe government. Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, a moderate who hifbself called for white help earlier this year when his army mutinied, ludicrously deplored the paratroop drop as "reminiscent of Pearl Harbor"-but then, he has Communist problems of his own at home...