Word: nairobi
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Vendors selling popcorn and soft drinks moved through the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered in the tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed...
...Obote's supporters. The homes of two former ministers were looted and burned, including the house of the man who headed one of Obote's most dreaded police units. Obote, who has been charged with killing more than 100,000 people in a campaign of terror, has fled to Nairobi...
...have children, but that goal is still unrealized in large parts of the globe. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Kenya, where men's resistance to contraception has contributed to a stratospheric birthrate of 4%, the highest in the world. Birth control was a running controversy at the Nairobi meetings, where antiabortion groups and organizations opposed to artificial contraception clashed sharply with pro-choice and family-planning advocates. "Women must control their own fertility, which forms the basis for enjoying all other rights," insisted Sally Mugabe, head of the Zimbabwe delegation and wife of that country's Prime Minister...
...Skeptics felt that the gathering, even at its most high-minded, was fundamentally unimportant and ineffective. Before the conference took place, Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, a committed feminist, dismissed it as "one giant commemorative stamp." But for many participants, particularly those at the NGO forum, the significance of Nairobi was found less in the official proceedings of the U.N. meeting than in the peaceful and joyous way the swirling mix of women from the developed nations, the Third World and the Soviet bloc worked together on a one-to-one basis. Time after time, women linked arms and belted...
Whether that temporary epiphany can hasten true equality between the sexes remains to be seen. Like most U.N. ideals, the warm feelings of sisterly unity that infused Nairobi may be difficult to translate into concrete action in the rough-and-tumble forum of international politics. But many women nevertheless voiced their determination to try. Said Filipino Irene Santiago, of the Asian Women's Research and Action Network: "We are preparing for the long haul." --By Susan Tifft. Reported by Jane O'Reilly and Maryanne Vollers/Nairobi WOMEN WORLDWIDE...