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...secret was the operation that each of the three aircraft involved took off carrying sealed orders. But once they understood their mission, the pilots understood the security. They were on their way to Maralal airstrip, 200 miles from Nairobi, to bring home Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta. the man the British sent to jail in 1953 for organizing the ferocious Mau Mau terror. After eight years. Kenya's Governor Sir Patrick Renison had convinced both himself and the Colonial Office in London that British forces could handle any threat to public order posed by the old African nationalist...
...reprisal, nor "conventional" arms because of our budgeted buildup, it's plain that the next war must be fought with triremes, broadswords, crossbows and assagais. (Would catapults be cheating?) I do hope we have alerted our archery clubs, hammer throwers and those of our allies still expert with spear and blowgun (politicians might qualify on the latter...
...forever, and to dominate the black leadership when the nation finally wins independence. Already a K.L.F.A. plot to kill Ronald Ngala, moderate leader of a prominent African political party, has been unearthed and nipped in the bud. By all reports, the new movement hoped to recruit Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta as its leader once he is permitted to re-enter politics. So far, the movement is too small to force its will on the rising black politicians, but British authorities fear real trouble if the Russians and Chinese, who now have big diplomatic missions in neighboring Somalia, begin pumping clandestine...
...party on an emergency footing, Kaunda declared that a massive passive resistance campaign would soon begin. "We control the kitchens, the mines, the shops, the airways-everything," he cried. Kaunda insisted that the "master plan" would be peaceful: "We will not lift a stone, a panga, a club, a spear." But next day he was off again on another trip, this time to Accra and talks with Ghana's rambunctious Kwame Nkrumah, who not only advocates violence, if necessary, to sweep the white man out of Africa, but has received hundreds of tons of Soviet arms to help achieve...
...sight of a spear fisherman on the prowl in mask, wet suit, fins and Aqua-Lung is enough to convince most casual observers that the underwater sportsman is equipped to take unfair advantage of his peaceful prey. But U.S. Navy Mineman Third Class Scotty Slaughter, 24, is a skindiver with a difference. He hunts for danger: any size, shape or variety of shark. It seems unfair to Scotty that spearmen anxious to skewer a meal should be bothered by a fish with the nasty habit of fighting back. So the blond, blue-eyed waterbug from Clearwater, Fla., has embarked...