Word: mombasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Jomo Kenyatta, eightyish, President of Kenya, who led his country to independence; in Mombasa (see WORLD...
...Owen to a Mombasa barroom, blasts his body "from there to Johannesburg," then goes "wandering through the night...
...biggest navy, the No. 1 fishing fleet and-here is the clincher-a rapidly growing merchant marine that has already opened a new era of commercial competition on the high seas.* Soviet shippers are plying routes to every major port, from San Francisco to Dar es Salaam, Hamburg to Mombasa. It is almost as if the Russians were following the turn-of-the-century imperialist dictum: "Trade follows the flag...
...mile Indian expedition or his 8,000-mile Peru-to-Patagonia haul. "We go to the interior, where the ordinary people live," says Jan Buchta, a veteran Rotel guide, who likes to call the tours "study trips. In Africa, for example, we not only show guests Nairobi and Mombasa but also the hinterland of Kenya...
London immediately refuted the charges, pointing out that it had only 38 servicemen in Kenya and no combat troops whatever on the two vessels that were making routine calls at Mombasa. In the House of Commons, Callaghan declared firmly that he would be willling to go to Kampala for discussions but not under duress. "It is utterly wrong," he said, "that a man's life should be bartered against political conditions...