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...terror in the capital city. As Radio Uganda broadcast the news that Obote's Uganda People's Congress had won a majority in the new 126-seat parliament, the air was filled with the crackle of machine guns and the dull thud of exploding grenades. At the Speke Hotel, headquarters of the 60-member Commonwealth observer team that had monitored the voting, diplomats dove under the dining room tables. Asked why roaming, drunken soldiers were shooting up the city, a young private replied: "Because we are rejoicing." It was chilling to contemplate what the trigger-happy troops would...
...White Nile by Alan Moorehead. 368 pages. Harper & Row. $15. Handsomely and intelligently illustrated in this reissue, this decade-old chronicle of the river, its sources and explorers stands up as fine travel history. The heroes, of course, are the eccentric British explorers of the last century: Burton, Speke, Baker, Livingstone. Through primitive lands, fierce populations and climates, and frequent pestilence, they hunted the Nile to its source in Lake Victoria-as Moorehead puts it, "a sunburst of Victorian courage...
...WHITE NILE, by Alan Moorehead. The last half of the 19th century saw the Nile traced to its sources and the vast, hostile area it drained subdued by such peculiarly Victorian heroes as Burton, Speke, Livingstone, Stanley, "Chinese" Gordon and Kitchener. A too-brief book that is the most readable of the year's popular histories...
...readable but perhaps too brief account of those redoubtable Victorians-Burton, Speke, Stanley, Livingstone, Gordon, Kitchener-who explored the upper reaches of the Nile, taking pestilence and polygamy as they found them...
...Speke, England, after complaining to no avail that a faulty switch in his neighbor's house was interfering with his TV set, Jack Pugh, 50, walked next door, spotted Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Morrison, watching their own TV, fired four bullets through the window, wounding them both and smashing their TV set, explained later to cops: "I acted under great provocation...