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...involuntary, to seal their oaths by digging up corpses and eating their putrefied flesh, copulating with sheep, dogs or adolescent girls, and by drinking the famed "Kaberichia cocktail"-a mixture of semen and menstrual blood. And when he was assigned to kill an enemy of the movement, a sworn Mau Mau pledged himself to remove the eyeballs of his victim and drink the liquid from them...
Many feel that Christianity's greatest handicap in Africa is its record of tolerating segregation, notably in South Africa. Two such sworn enemies as South Africa's Premier Hendrik Verwoerd and Cape Town's Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank agree that a crisis is at hand for Christianity on the continent. Said Verwoerd last week: "We are faced today by threats to the future of civilization, to the contribution of the white man in South Africa . . . Christianity is threatened in Africa more than anywhere else." His prescription: continued segregation and repression...
...career unfolded before Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust subcommittee, it became clear that the guardian of public interest in antibiotics also had a personal stake in the matter. Over the years Welch had pocketed $260,766, derived, in one way or another, from the interests he was sworn to regulate...
...Britain's House of Commons early last month. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd eloquently restated the arguments that Western leaders have been using for a decade past to justify German rearmament. West Germany today, said Lloyd, is a sworn ally of the West, incapable of the diplomatic and military adventurism of the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler. Last week, the misgivings his speech was designed to mollify broke out anew when Germany's allies learned that brash, beefy West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss had been negotiating a sub rosa military agreement with Franco Spain...
...exploded once and for all the myth of white supremacy." Now it was his task to sell the plan to the doubters and the angry among his own Africans. There were some of both, for Mboya and his delegation were not returning with all they had promised. He had sworn to settle for nothing less than one man, one vote, but in London he accepted a franchise still limited to those who can read or write, or are over 40, or are earning at least $210 a year. He had promised "Uhtiru today!," but he will not have full independence...