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...annual conference at Brighton last week, the Tories debated their future. During the speeches and the votes, the man who will have most to do with that future sat silently on the sidelines. But little escaped his clinical blue eyes and card-index memory, and this week Iain Norman Macleod, 47, goes into action as new chairman of the Conservative Party, bringing with him the kind of dynamism that wins elections...
...British hint that they will be watching closely before deciding whether or not to restore Kenyatta's eligibility to hold political office. But since they have promised Kenya independence-possibly by next summer-their control over the Burning Spear is at best temporary. British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod himself has said: "As time goes on, Africans will be in the majority position and their voice will be the predominant voice." And quite possibly. the predominant voice in Kenya will be that of Jomo Kenyatta...
...black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless the reins remained in the hands of Northern Rhodesia's 75,000 whites. Caught in the middle, Britain's hard-pressed Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod last week finally produced a labyrinthine new constitutional proposal that left everything up in the air. So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain...
...population-would have a large voice in the legislature for the first time, but no guaranteed, clear-cut majority. Kaunda, 37, is normally a mild-mannered man and conspicuously dedicated to the ways of moderation. But he returned from London shaking with fury. Angrily declaring that Macleod had given the blacks advance assurance of a "small majority," he announced: "The British government has completely betrayed us, and is treating us like pieces of dirt...
Jomo has a personal stake in the struggle: his own freedom. Governor Renison -who once described Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death"-has agreed to move Jomo soon to a more pleasant location in the Kenya highlands, but still in confinement. In London, British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod backed Renison's stand in Parliament...