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...Iverson was one of the first eyewitnesses to describe the scene to an anxious U.S. TV audience. Meanwhile, Wynn and Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt lined up an interview with Egypt's new leader, Hosni Mubarak, and Correspondents Roland Flamini and Jack White arrived from Bonn and Nairobi to profile the assassins and follow the funeral preparations...
...soldiers were executed after confessing to a plot to overthrow Doe and his People's Redemption Council (P.R.C.). Last month five members of the P.R.C. itself, including Doe's deputy, Thomas Weh Syen, were shot after a military tribunal convicted them of planning to assassinate Doe. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White, who witnessed the 1980 executions, returned to Monrovia last week and sent this report...
...delegates who gathered in Nairobi last week for the fourth General Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches were shunted away from the organization's fancy new headquarters on Waiyaki Way. Instead, they met in an unpretentious teachers' college outside the Kenyan capital. A conference hall and chapel, intended to serve as an imposing centerpiece for Africa's largest ecumenical body, is still unfinished for lack of funds...
That situation dramatizes A.A.C.C. difficulties in trying to unite in a heterogeneous Christian community. Though they represent 100 million members, the Nairobi delegates worried about future erosion in their ranks-to conservative evangelical churches and homegrown "independent" denominations. They urged leaders to make more "encounter journeys" to grass-roots churches...
Fear of assassination may cut down foreign travel by politicians. Fifty African heads of state are due in Nairobi next month for a summit meeting, but according to one diplomat, "Kenya will be lucky if it gets even a third of the total." Australia, which has already committed $14 million for massive security at October's Commonwealth Conference in Melbourne, ordered a fresh review of plans after John Paul's shooting...