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...accordance with Kenyan law, authorities, pending the trial, would give no information about their suspect beyond his name: Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge. That was plenty. Two of his names identified him as a member of the dominant Kikuyu tribe. Mboya's Luo tribal brothers suspected from the first that his killer belonged to the Kikuyu, traditional foes of the less powerful Luo. Thus new tribal disturbances are likely to erupt when Njoroge goes on trial this week. The plot is complicated by the fact that Mboya, though a Luo, was also a national leader of the Kenya African National...
...Union, the opposition party headed by an emotional Luo leftist, Oginga Odinga. Realizing that many Luo tribesmen had come under Odinga's sway, President Jomo Kenyatta asked Mboya to undertake an emergency reorganization of KANU before national elections, which must be held before next June. Mboya, a member of Kenyatta's Cabinet and a possible, if not likely successor, was hard at work when he was shot...
...same traditional Lutheran confessions, the Synod believes strictly in the historical accuracy of Scripture-including the entire Book of Genesis. Until now it has stubbornly shunned contact with churches it felt interpreted the Bible more freely. It has rejected most of the ecumenical movement, and is not a member of either the World or the National Council of Churches, or even of the Lutheran World Federation...
Divorced. By Sir Joshua Hassan, 53, chief minister of Gibraltar: Lady Daniela Hassan, 48, his Spanish wife; after 24 years of marriage, two children; in Gibraltar. Sir Joshua angered the Rock's mainly Roman Catholic citizenry and embarrassed the British government by getting his divorce with a private member's bill that he rammed through the legislative assembly-all of which may damage his bid for another term in this week's elections...
...Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, the new reserves will reduce nations' dependence on the diminishing supply of real gold in global finance and create new assets to sustain the growth of world trade. The SDRs will exist only in the ledgers of the International Monetary Fund. Its 111 member nations will be able to draw on these reserves to settle accounts among themselves, and central banks will have to accept them, just like gold, dollars or pounds. The step means that the IMF may one day regulate the world's money supply the way that central banks...