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Kenyan runners, in fact, took gold in four out of six distance events, with Peter Rono winning the 1,500 meters, John Ngugi the 5,000 meters and Julius Kariuki the steeplechase. Rono attributed his compatriots' success to the high level of competition they face in their own country. Said he: "We have many young talents back home, and it is not easy to make the Olympic team. I felt it was harder than winning here...
...Tanzania, for all its self-righteousness, holds more political prisoners than South Africa. East Africa's most respected writer, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, of Kenya, is in jail as an alleged subversive. One quarter of the population of Equatorial Guinea is in exile. Nineteen black African countruss are under military rule," Lamb's report continued. Last week Lamb told a critic who accused the Western press of being overly negativistic in its Africa coverage, that he, too, was tired of going to Uganda to write stories about Amin...