Word: tsavo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a habit of wrecking their environment and destroying their own food supply. The suicide ground of the retreating herds of African elephants has been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This "sanctified ghetto," as a former director of game research in Tsavo bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned...
...claim that they have been euchred out of their ownership of what may be the world's richest ruby mine by some well-connected Kenyans. It all started about a year ago, when John M. Saul, 37, and his partner Elliot ("Tim") Miller discovered in Kenya's Tsavo West National Park a deposit of rubies that was later estimated to be worth at least $5 million. Saul and Miller got a fully legal permit to develop their find. Figuring local participation would ease their way, they shrewdly offered 51% of the deal to a group of high-ranking...
...resources for his own private benefit. That is, no doubt, a valid general principle. But in this case it seems that the wealth of the mine is intended for private pockets, not the public welfare. With the Americans out of the way, the mysterious Criticos began mining rubies at Tsavo, continuing even after a Kenyan court had temporarily enjoined him from doing so. There have been allegations that the claims book at the Kenyan Ministry of Natural Resources, in which the two Americans had originally registered their find, has disappeared. In its place, supposedly, is a new claims book listing...
Late in the week, Rogers conferred in Nairobi with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, then planned to spend the weekend watching elephants in the wild splendors of Tsavo National Park, 150 miles from the capital. "Let's not call it a day off," he told his staff. "Let's call it a fact-finding expedition." Facts, after all, are what he is looking for -and over the next stops on his ten-country, two-week trip-Zambia, the Congo, Cameroun, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia-Rogers will be looking hard for areas in which U.S. aid can be more effectively...