Coastweek Newspaper Vol 2 No 26 (June 29-July 5,1979)

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Inside this issue: South coast hotel boom: The government intends that the development of Diani Beach, on Kenya’s south coast mainland, may be based on ‘free enterprise’. Derek Hall on ‘low season booster’ visit: Back in Kenya again for a brief seven-day ‘Whistle stop’ tour before jetting onto the Seychelles has been Derrick Hall, United Touring International’s marketing manager for Europe, East Africa and Seychelles. Zanzibar looking at rubber: Zanzibar which provides the greater part of the world’s supply of cloves, is to diversify its monocrop economy by developing rubber plantations. The energy crisis means sacrifice; Kenya is an economic crisis. And the situation could be worse next year. So we were told during the budget day earlier this month Kenya and Britain: President Moi’s recent visit to Great Britain has reaffirmed the friendship and goodwill which exists between Kenya and Britain. Diffuculties in Iran: It is not just the Western press that has been wondering out loud whether the people of Iran have in Ayatollah Khomeini one despot in place of another…. Problems with a Propellor: I made last week of the presence in port of the Nedlloyd Niger discharging of a single voyage charter to Svedel Line. TARZAN BESUCHT DAS BAOBAB HOTEL Tarzan-Aehnliche Urschreiehallten durch die friedliche Stille des Robinson Baobab Hotel’s als sich kuerzlich sechs Leute im lustigen Wettstreit um den Titel des ‘Mr. Baobab’ massen.