Word: salaams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seized by Nyerere. Owners of lucrative sisal plantations were resigned to an expected takeover of their lands. Already more than 500 Asians have been ordered to leave Tanzania for failing to take out residence permits. Asians have been cursed, reviled and threatened during frenzied street demonstrations in Dar es Salaam by emerald-shirted black youths dubbed "the Green Guards" by Socialist Nyerere, who so admires Red China that he last week proclaimed the observance of the Chinese New Year in Tanzania...
...hardly My Fair Lady. But then again, neither is Hugo. He is a two-ton, five-year-old behemoth who in the course of a busy year has become the scourge of peasant farmers outside Dar es Salaam, the embarrassment of Tanzania's game department, the favorite of Tanzania's children, the object of a crusade by the nation's animal lovers, and the talk of the whole country...
...couldn't have happened to a friendlier hippo. Making his home in the grey-green Kurasini Creek outside Dar es Salaam, Hugo is a happy-go-lucky sort who loves nothing better than romping with dogs on the bank, marching behind a herd of cattle, and frolicking in the creek, creating miniature tidal waves. Water skiers even skim over his partly submerged back without raising as much as a snort. But Hugo has a vice: good food...
Orphans Wanted. Hearing about Hugo's plight, Dar es Salaam's daily Standard launched a save-Hugo campaign, and by last week Hugo had become a national celebrity. Some of his notices were anything but raves. "The hippo, like a member of his family, the wild pig, is vermin of the first degree," one irate reader wrote. "The best treatment for Hugo is a bullet through the head." The majority, however, was siding with Hugo and making Tanzania's favorite hippo the hip thing. Last week Tanzanians were humming the "Hugo song." They shuffled, stamped and snorted...
...outdone, the Tanzania S.P.C.A. raised $350 -and the support of President Julius Nyerere-for a plan to ship Hugo to the Mikumi Game Park. Nyerere, who keeps orphaned gazelles, ostriches and peacocks on his private grounds, has even set up plans for a parade through Dar es Salaam once Hugo is caught...