Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert outpost of Kapenguria,the Queen's lawyers proceeded in slow, judicial fashion against Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the London-educated Kikuyu who, settlers believe, is the brains behind the Mau Mau. Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino...
...High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant '14 warned Soviet Russia yesterday that the United States will defend Berlin as an "unshaken outpost of the Western world...
...even when his mind was delirious. At last, just as he was about to make contact with the advancing U.S. forces, a German patrol picked him up. Weak as he was, Yeo-Thomas promptly organized another mass escape. One day later he staggered with his companions into an American outpost. "Don't shoot!" he shouted. "Escaping prisoners of war!" Said an American soldier: "Well, you guys are goddam lucky; you've just crossed a minefield...
Last week a Red offensive hit the Bootleggers' lines at midnight. One ROK outpost was overrun; Communist raiders poured into the Bootleg trenches. But the 12th stood fast, keeping a steady fire on the Red infantry, bayoneting those who broke through the barrage. At 1:40 a.m. the Communist attack fell apart; 94 North Koreans lay dead in the snow; hundreds more had been wounded. The Bootleggers' losses: 24 killed...
Kenyatta, handcuffed and shabby after ten weeks in jail, was on trial last week in the remote northern outpost of Kapenguria. The principal charge was "management of an unlawful society," but implicitly, Kenyatta was suspected of sowing the seeds of African Communism. His defending counsel was Britain's slick Denis Nowell Pritt, Queen's Counsel, the man who got Gerhart Eisler freed in England. Though he denies being a Communist Party member himself, Pritt can be relied upon to echo the familiar cries, including that of germ warfare in Korea...