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...after five months of hunting and writing and set out for Africa's east coast to fish, he hired Pilot Marsh and his four-place Cessna. Last week Pilot Marsh left Nairobi for an African village named Masindi, planning to circle the spectacular Murchison Falls of the Victoria Nile on the way. But Marsh and the Hemingways never arrived at Masindi. A B.Q.A.C. plane, diverted from its route to search for them, found the Cessna in trees near the falls and reported that there was no sign of life to be seen...
...Hollywood, the Breen Office suggested that Producer Leonard Goldstein remove from his new film. Princess of the Nile, certain scenes in which Cinemactress Debra Paget performs bumps and grinds while dancing. Protested Goldstein: "The Egyptians didn't call those movements bumps and grinds. We are now arguing with the Breen Office as to what is a bump and what is a grind...
...miles north of the equator, not far from where the Nile rises, the Mountains of the Moon face east towards a mighty lake that could drown the state of West Virginia. On the northern shore of Lake Victoria sits Kampala (pop. 22,000), the chief city of the British protectorate of Uganda and the ancient tribal capital of 1,300,000 Baganda tribesmen...
...marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision; the rest are Southern primitives, who worship bulls, wear no clothes and hunt hippopotami in the swamps of the White Nile. There are Moslems and pagans, Dinkas, Bongos, Niam-Niams and Fuzzy-Wuzzies, but last week all confronted a new experience that most had never heard of and very few understood. The experience was democracy...
...Cairo shared the administration, but in 1925 the British kicked their partner out. Egyptian independence left Sudan as the northern bulwark of Britain's East African Empire. Sudan was Cairo's fief in the days before the Mahdi; more important, it controls the headstreams of the Nile. Cairo's policy is to unite the Nile valley from source to estuary, i.e., to annex Sudan. Britain's counterproposal: Sudanese independence, if possible within the Commonwealth...