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...Nairobi's conical-roofed Kenyatta...
...Lawyer Michael Gardner, pronounced himself absolutely delighted" at the outcome Gardner had warned that passage of the measure would mean U.S. withdrawal from the ITU and suspension of $2.4 million in American funding (more than 6% of the ITU'S budget last year) for the agency. Said Gardner: "Nairobi has sent a clear message to the people who would like to spoil the whole U.N. system...
Back in Africa, Milingo began praying for cures of ailing supplicants, and soon hundreds were reporting miracles. One American nun, Frances Randall, a psychology lecturer in Nairobi, says she was cured of a painful broken coccyx bone. Cure-seekers streamed to Lusaka from across Africa, and Milingo healed others in the U.S. and Europe. When he attended an African bishops' conference, the sick congregated outside the hall...
...successor to Kenya's legendary founding father Jomo Kenyatta, the new President was praised by observers for his relatively liberal approach to politics. But in the past six months Moi has shown an increasingly authoritarian bent. He has ordered the detention, without charges, of seven people, including four Nairobi University lecturers, presumably for expressing reservations about his rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader, Oginga Odinga (a member of Kenya's second-largest tribe, the Luo), who is known as "Mr. Double...
...into effect drastic austerity measures, including import restrictions and foreign exchange controls. Nonetheless, the stores of Asian traders in Nairobi were still full of luxury imports available to the economic elite and the more blatantly corrupt members of Moi's own government. Warns one Nairobi businessman: "Unless the government does something drastic to improve the situation, all hell is going to break loose...