Coastweek Newspaper Vol 27 No 2 (January 9-15,2004)

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Inside this issue: Kenya-U.S. Armed forces holding exercise at coast: Kenya armed forces and united states marines are currently involved in joint military excercises known as Edged mallet ‘04’ The two-week ‘war games’ along the coast include the active participationof several hundred Kenyan and U.S personnel and is part of on-going joint annual bilateral exercises, Lord of rings: Return of king: Reported by Anjum Asodia: When J.R.R Tolkien wrote the Lord of the rings Trilogy early in the last century he had a lot of vision and futuristic foresight , but little did he know the impact the films made from his books would make worldwide, Kwale district eye center : Serving the community with affordable eye care: Reported by Patricia Hughes Scott: Worldwide, one person becomes blind every five seconds in total , it is estimated that there are around 50 million people who are completed blind , 90 per cent of whom live in the developing world.