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...Problems. Almost certainly the man behind increasing leftist intrigue is "Mr. Double O"-Oginga Odinga, formerly Kenyatta's Home Minister, who wound up as Vice President in Kenyatta's new Cabinet, a post that theoretically limits his powers but in the eyes of most Kenyans makes him heir to Kenyatta. Odinga is a well-entrenched leader of Kenyatta's KANU Party, which is now the only one in Parliament after the country "voluntarily" turned itself into a one-party state; he regularly visits Peking, and he receives Russian and Red Chinese financial support. Perhaps only tough, able...
Clamor v. Cry. As far as Kenyatta is concerned, his own KANU supplies about all the opposition he needs, balanced as it is between his own Kikuyus and the Luo tribe of his powerful, Communist-backed Home Minister Oginga Odinga. In a tribal society, Kenyatta argues, the two-party system is unnatural. "We don't subscribe to the notion of the government and the governed in opposition to one another, one clamoring for duties and the other crying for rights." Will one-party government mean repression? For all his terrorist past, Prime Minister Kenyatta, 73, has so far gone...
Kenyatta himself has hardly shown any Communist sympathies, but his Home Minister, Oginga Odinga, is a left-winger who has already set up a state news agency with Russian and Czech help. He is perhaps balanced by Justice Minister Tom Mboya, who is at present politically in the shade, but remains strongly nationalist and generally pro-Western...
...Peoples Party, but also dealt skillfully with the clever KANU rivals below him who have been hoping to be named as Kenyatta's heir apparent. They are Tom Mboya, 32, the bright, able and ruthless labor leader who leads a moderate faction inside KANU, and Communist-leaning Oginga Odinga, 52, who wears a blue Mao Tse-tung-style workingman's uniform. Kenyatta moved promptly to secure a proper balance in his new administration, handed almost equal Cabinet posts to the two contenders: Mboya was named Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, and Odinga was given the potentially powerful...