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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesKENYAQuieting the Dissenters
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- Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi had vowed to hunt down
- proponents of multiparty democracy "like rats." Last week he
- caged some. Over two days, police arrested eleven men linked
- to the nascent movement to legalize opposition parties, which
- Moi, in power since 1978, officially banned in 1982. Among the
- detainees were former Cabinet ministers Kenneth Matiba and
- Charles Rubia.
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- Despite the arrests, the pressure on Moi is unlikely to
- subside. On Saturday thousands of demonstrators in Nairobi
- defied a government ban and held a rally calling for multiparty
- democracy. Police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse the
- protesters.
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- According to congressional sources, the U.S. is apt to
- respond to Moi's crackdown by slashing aid to Kenya, which is
- scheduled to receive $53 million this year. The country is the
- biggest recipient of U.S. aid in sub-Saharan Africa.
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