Word: nairobi
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...fears about the future of the 300 Britons-mostly missionaries and teachers-remaining in their former colony. With Amin warning that "big mouths talking on behalf of the Israelis, such as the British, will pay very heavily," some 200 Britons have already fled Uganda, most of them heading for Nairobi...
...hijacking story, Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who happened to be in New York. Neff maintained phone contact with Halevy, getting details of the story in spite of interruptions from a wary Israeli censor who listened in on the entire conversation. Calling from Nairobi with the latest details from there and from sources in Uganda was Correspondent Eric Robins...
...senior Mossad officer was dispatched to persuade Kenyan officials to allow Israeli planes to land at Nairobi Airport in an emergency. The Kenyans were receptive. In January, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada had helped terrorists get into Kenya for an unsuccessful attempt to destroy an Israeli El Al plane during a takeoff from Nairobi; then the following month, after coming across some old British colonial maps, Amin claimed that huge chunks of Kenya actually belonged to Uganda. In return for Kenyan help, the Israelis promised to cripple Amin's Soviet-equipped air force. To spare Nairobi the wrath...
...group waited in reserve, while the fourth unsuccessfully tried to get the airfield's fuel pumps working. Because of this failure, the Israelis were not able to refuel and retrieve the Air France plane as they had planned. Instead, they had to refuel their own C-130s at Nairobi on the flight back to Israel...
...Department officials in California recently released more than 350 million sterile males and females in an apparently successful attempt to control an invasion of relatively small numbers of the Mediterranean fruit fly. The invaders, mating mostly with the overwhelming numbers of sterile flies, could produce no offspring. Officials at Nairobi's ICIPE are experimenting with the sterile male technique in their war against mosquitoes and the tsetse fly. Says ICIPE founder and current director Professor Thomas R. Odhiambo: "It looks as though family planning has at last caught up with...