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...disappearing from barracks last year and dozens of others were slapped into the infamous Makindye prison outside Kampala on conspiracy charges. Last month the bullet-riddled body of Lieut. Colonel Michael Ondoga, who as Foreign Minister was the highest-ranking Lugbara in the government, was found floating in the Nile...
...grim business of reprisals. At least 500 people are known to have been executed so far, mostly Lugbaras. A few were killed by firing squads; others were shot in the knees, doused with gasoline, and set afire, or trussed up and tossed alive into Lake Victoria or the Nile to drown or be devoured by crocodiles...
...their way to Egypt for a trip up the Nile to see the pyramids, Jackie Onassis along with Caroline and John Kennedy stopped off at Husband Ari's Paris apartment. One evening they sallied out to the Palais des Congrés to see the visiting Russian folk ballet Berkiozka and during the intermission went backstage to meet the cast. Jackie was so taken by the great big bear who is a traditional member of the troupe that she asked him to dance. So, with a growl, the bear obliged, sweeping a beaming Mrs. Onassis into his furry arms...
...Cairo by Kissinger, Sadat rewarded the U.S. for what he considers a turnabout in its Middle East attitude. He and Kissinger announced that full diplomatic relations between Egypt and the U.S. were being resumed. To mark the occasion, Kissinger presided at a ceremony at the U.S. embassy near the Nile, which for nearly seven years has operated as the "American interests" section of the Spanish embassy. The Spanish flag was lowered and presented to Ambassador Manuel Alabart with thanks, and the U.S. flag was hoisted. Sadat also issued an invitation to President Nixon to visit Cairo in April...
...annihilation, of being surrounded by what is hostile, of loss and of being lost." The test that he devised for himself was formidable. Equipped with little more than a knife, a badly calibrated sextant and a crash course in Arabic, he planned to cross from the Atlantic to the Nile, a journey of 3,600 miles that had never been completed by a traveler alone...