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Married. Charles Njonjo, 52, Kenya's debonair Attorney General; and Margaret Bryson, 34, daughter of white Christian missionaries and a supervisor of French instruction for Kenya's Ministry of Education; both for the first time; in Nairobi...
Negotiations will now proceed in the IMF's Committee of Twenty, a group of officials of the developing nations and the rich, non-Communist countries. The aim is to produce principles for a monetary system that the IMF could formally adopt at its annual meeting in Nairobi a year from now. Secretary Shultz has outlined a balanced and flexible system that holds real promise for bringing the world out of its monetary muddle...
...else, on another beach." An Asian schoolteacher agreed. "My classes are 95% African," he said. "They are being told to hate the Asians. How can I stand up in front of them in the classroom? It is a question of respect." The Asians' fears deepened as reports reached Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya, that Ugandan soldiers had shot 16 Sikhs near the border two weeks...
...country of origin, they are usually not a bargain at the airport. Nevertheless, anyone who forgot to get something for Aunt Minnie can airport-shop for Indian applique work in Panama ($8), Welsh tapestry cloth in London ($7), Eskimo carvings in Montreal and local indigo-printed cloth in Nairobi ($10). Also available at some duty-free shops: locally produced canned delicacies...
Superior Man. "He was really a freak in this profession," reflected one of Steiner's old Biafra mates recently in Nairobi. "As a kind of self-appointed messiah, he thought he had a mission to fight for African underdogs. The runaway scholar of divinity was seeing himself as a kind of armed missionary, the superior man from the superior race playing savior to the persecuted." With a little more juju, Steiner may yet be out in time to fight another...