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...film and photographs that powerfully evoke the countryside. Baroness Karen Blixen lived from 1913 to 1931 in the highlands of what is now Kenya, then returned to Denmark, where under the pen name Isak Dinesen she recalled her former home in prose as direct and luminous as the land: "Mombasa has all the look of a picture of Paradise, painted by a small child . . . Once as we turned a corner in the forest, we saw a leopard sitting on the road, a tapestry animal...
Diplomatic analysts, especially those in Washington, were still expressing relief last week at the Moi government's survival. Among other things, the Kenyan port of Mombasa is a strategic port of call for the U.S. Indian Ocean fleet. Kenya gets $79.5 million a year in military and economic aid from Washington, and U.S. technicians are currently dredging Mombasa's harbor to make it a more effective base of operations for the Rapid Deployment Force. Warns one U.S. expert on Kenya: "We can take heart that the constitutional government restored order, but we can't blind ourselves...
...used to convert eight commercial cargo ships to fast Navy resupply vessels. There are also funds to lengthen the runways at the U.S.-leased military base on Britain's Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean so it can handle B-52 bombers and to improve ports at Mombasa in Kenya and Barbara in Somalia to accommodate U.S. naval vessels under agreements with those two nations...
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...