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Considering the circumstances, the inexperienced military rulers in Addis Ababa were understandably jittery-as shown by their treatment last week of TIME Correspondent Eric Robins, who flew into Addis Ababa from Nairobi, tried to file a dispatch and was interrogated and inexplicably imprisoned by Ethiopian secret police...
...also met with alumni while visiting Nigeria's Lagos and Ibadan Universities and Kenya's Nairobi University...
...hypnotized by power. Nonetheless, after days of debate in Mexico City, the committee set up a loose minimal structure. More important, they decided to appoint a full-time executive secretary and offered the job to a Third World churchman, the Rev. Gottfried B. Osei-Mensah, 40, pastor of the Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya. Once a sales engineer with Mobil Oil in Ghana, Osei-Mensah holds a bachelor of science degree from Birmingham University and worked for the Pan-African Fellowship of Evangelical Students for five years before taking the Nairobi congregation...
...will be in the direction of socialism, for that is the only answer for Africa. " So said President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania 13 years ago on the eve of independence from Britain. Today Tanzania faces economic disaster. After a visit to Tanzania, TIME'S Nairobi bureau chief Lee Griggs sent this report...
...addition, Butterfield last week took steps to require the airlines to adopt in 1975 a device that sounds an audible warning when the leading-edge flaps on a Boeing 747 do not deploy fully-the apparent cause of a Lufthansa accident in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 21 that killed 59 people. Again, Butterfield is open to criticism for not having acted sooner. There had been enough cases of flaps not extending on 747s well before Nairobi to cause British Airways to install such a warning device in 1972, even though none of the failures had at that point caused...