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...Prince Charles is atop Christine Keeler, and he's riding her hard," rasped the public address system. The crowd cheered. This Christine Keeler was a polo pony, of course, lent to the Prince of Wales for a few chukkers with the Nairobi Polo Club on his tour of Kenya with Sister Princess Anne. Later, Charles bestowed his first accolade. With the traditional ceremonial sword of the Princes of Wales he dubbed William Duffus, President of the Appeal Court of East Africa, on both shoulders, pronouncing him "Sir William," and motioned him to rise. Then, the ceremony of knighthood being...
...VITA!" the pretty blonde shouted in Swahili. "Attack! Attack!" There, surrounded by hundreds of Kenyan schoolboys, was Britain's Princess Anne, cheering on the home side's soccer team. The princess, on a fortnight's tour of Kenya with her brother Prince Charles, was visiting a Nairobi home for 1,000 destitute and orphaned African boys. The school is supported by the Save the Children Fund, of which the princess is president...
...Black Africa to be despaired of, then? By no means. As TIME Nairobi Correspondent John Blashill notes: "Independence has not brought prosperity, nor even, in many cases, political freedom. But neither has Black Africa collapsed, as the South Africans had forecast and many Belgians, among others, had hoped. Its leaders have become less dogmatic, more realistic about what they can do and how fast. In the long run, their prospects are bright. Africa is rich, salted with minerals, blessed with vast stretches of fertile land. It is underpopulated and underexploited. Properly cultivated, it could feed the world by itself...
...argues that the real reason is a destructive urge born of overcrowding. Other scientists believe that, as elephants are driven into the park for refuge, their overall number is decreasing. In Uganda, elephants in overcrowded parks have begun to develop heart conditions because of stress. The hartebeest population in Nairobi National Park is growing so fast that males must fight frequently for territory, thus disrupting their feeding habits. Even worse, because the national parks are not ecological units, there is no balance between food and animal number, predator and prey...
...have been reported. More recently, the disease has cropped up in Jordan, Iraq and Syria. Israel has reported 33 cases, Lebanon 30 and Libya 28. A Togolese businessman died of cholera in Ghana last week, and medical authorities in Kenya have isolated a suspected cholera victim who arrived in Nairobi on a flight from Rome. El Tor is expected to show up in Western Europe any day now. The outbreak has not yet approached the Middle East epidemic of 1965-66, which ravaged Iran and Iraq and eventually killed some 14,000 persons...