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Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1963
Kenya Celebrating New Independence
NAIROBI, Kenya—(UPI)—Tribesmen and city dwellers today staged premature celebrations of Kenya's independence, which becomes official at midnight tonight in a ceremony ending Britain's 68 years of rule over this rich East African nation.
Heavy rainfall hampered the festivities, but Africans in the capital and countryside already were celebrating Uhuru or freedom as the last day of British dependence dawned.
PRINCE PHILIP, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, and many other foreign dignitaries including Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams, United Auto Workers' president Walter Reuther, and Negro author James Baldwin were here to witness the lowering of the Union Jack in the stadium ceremony.
Kenyatta, now 73, won freedom for his country through elections and negotiations after British security forces defeated the Mau Mau.
But the center of attraction was the tall, bearded premier of the new nation, Jomo Kenyatta, who spent much of the past 10 years in British jails convicted of leading the Mau Mau terrorist organization.
HIS TASK IS far from completed with independence.
Kenya, the 34th African nation to achieve independence and the last of Britain's former East African colonies, faces the formidable problem of integrating a large white and Asian population into the African majority of 8.5 million.
Kenya once had 66,000 whites and still has 60,000, along with 70,000 Arabs and Asians. No other African nation has had to absorb such substantial minorities.
KENYATT'A's solution is expressed in the African slogan "Harambee," which means "we all pull together." It has replaced "uhuru" in the chants and responses by Kenyatta's audiences.
Kenyatta, who can point to an integrated cabinet and family as examples, has appealed to the whites to stay here and help develop the country.
His minister of lands is a white man, Bruce MacKenzie, with the important task or dividing up land for African farmers. The success of MacKenzie's efforts will determine whether the Britons who have formed Kenya's productive coffee sugar, and cotton plantations will remain or will continue to pack up and leave.
DURING HIS long stay in England, Kenyatta married a white schoolteacher, Edna Clark, in 1943
He subsequently married an African woman. The former Miss Clark flew here this week to attend the independence celebrations.
Kenyatta has given the nation's whites two years to decide whether they want to become citizens of Kenya. They will be permitted to stay on after that, but only as foreigners, with fewer rights.
Ellsworth Votes OnJoining MRA
Residents of Fred Ellsworth Hall will vote tomorrow on whether to join the Men's Residence Association (MRA)
The Ellsworth Congress voted 12-5 Monday night to hold the election from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Ellsworth residents previously had turned down MRA affiliation. The Congress had advised members of the hall to vote against the proposal in that election.
Kent Smith, Topeka senior and MRA president, said he could not say whether it would pass this time. Members of the MRA have met with most of the men to discuss what the MRA is, what it has done and what it can do. Smith said.
It had been charged that many of the residents were uninformed in the last election, Smith said. "And it is very true that they weren't informed," he said.
"All but about three of the wings were favorable," he said.
"Our (the MRA's) responsibility has been very well taken care of," Smith said.
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KU-CU Offer Joint Language Institute
The movie will be narrated by Maurice Huling, assistant professor of psychology. "Out of Darkness" is a time study of a woman's stay in a California mental institution.
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KU and the University of Colorado will cooperate again in the summer of 1964 to offer an institute in Chinese and Japanese languages. The program will be on the Colorado campus in Boulder, changing from the KU campus where the first such program was presented last summer.
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The U.S. Office of Education has made a grant in support of the program. The grant includes support for 15 scholarship students.
"Out of Darkness," a movie showing the treatment and therapy of a mentally disturbed woman, will be shown at the Psychology Club meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
French President Charles De Gaulle warned last July that France would "review" its Common Market policies unless the farm question were settled by Dec. 31, but later French statements had been interpreted to mean the deadline was not firm.
A MEETING of Common Market agricultural ministers went into its third day with no sign of a break in the impasse between France and Germany, the body's two most powerful members.
French Agriculture Minister Edgar Pisani warned the other delegates yesterday, however, that the deadline "is not a legend or a fantasy." He then left abruptly for Paris to consult his government, saying only that he might return to Brussels today.
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The German cabinet met in Bonn today to deal with the Common Market crisis. German Agricultural Minister Werner Schwarz stayed away from the first two days of the Brussels meetings on the grounds that he was awaiting instructions from the cabinet.
The crisis—the worst since France vetoed Britain's application for Common Market membership 11 months ago—was based on a deadlock in efforts to set unified farm prices and subsidies for the six market nations.
Donald S. Willis, chairman of the Colorado Slavic and eastern languages department, will be director of the institute. Applicants for the program need to have completed at least one year of college work in the language and should file their papers with Dr. Willis by Feb. 10.
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Trade experts said that if the Common Market ceased to function western Europe's economic expansion could grind to a halt. They said this could have a serious effect on western defense planning.
Thomas R. Smith, chairman of the KU East Asia area program, said KU will supply some of the institute staff. Courses on three levels of Chinese and Japanese will be offered.
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The two state universities also collaborate for the summer teaching of Russian and Polish.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — (UPI)
—The European Common Market today faced a French ultimatum that threatened its very existence.
Common Market Shaken
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six years ago as a step toward a single European economic community, is composed of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
France, which has large surpluses of farm products, wants to keep down government price subsidies and sell its cheap agricultural products to Germany and other common market nations. It wants the protection of high tariffs on farm products from non-Market nations.
Such a program could make France the most powerful nation in Europe, on the basis of agricultural and industrial wealth.
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