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Leakey's body was found in a dense thicket some five miles from the lonely farm on which his wife was strangled to death by Mau Mau six weeks ago. Leakey had been tortured, buried alive and left in a shallow grave to become the prey of hyenas and wild dogs. Oddly enough, his murder was regarded in Kenya as further evidence of the Mau Mau's declining fortunes. The captured Kikuyu witchwoman who led police to Leakey's grave admitted that he had been made a human sacrifice in the hopes that his death would bring...
...rifleman hid in the thicket...
...Examples could be taken from any era to show how ghost-written sources have built an impenetrable thicket around the truth. Two generations of scholars have quarreled about the meaning of Washington's Farewell Address, simply because no one knows whether Washington himself or Alexander Hamilton was its author." The same can be said of Woodrow Wilson's "neutrality in thought" proclamation of Aug. 18, 1914. Recent investigations have "turned up the original draft of this proclamation in the handwriting of Robert Lansing, with changes and notations by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan . . . Therefore, if any character...
...band of Kikuyu women, naked except for thongs of leather tied round their shaven heads, recently stole out from a bamboo thicket on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. Armed with shiny pangas, they crept into a Kikuyu village, killed three Kikuyu men and a 14-year-old boy. The victims were Kikuyu guards, loyal to the white men and pledged to fight...
...Neill left the duffel bag at the end of a highway bridge in a heavily wooded area ten miles east of Kansas City. They drove away. Carl Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...