Coastweek Newspaper Vol 3 No 7 (February 15-21,1980)

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Inside this issue: Student go on stricke: The recent spate of unrest in Secondary Schools in the Country has spilled over the to the Coast Province, where students at Waa Secondary School have boycotted classes and gone into an orgy of violence, extensively damaging school property, Beer banned but the drinking goes on: Kwale (K.N.A.)- Since the closure of all local ‘pompe’ (beer) clubs in Kwale District Last year, small ‘pompe’ clubs of two popular local brews known as ‘Mnazi’ and ‘mkoma’ have illegally started mushrooming all over the area, Norman hardy dies: Well known Kenyan hotelier Norman Hardy has died in Mombasa after suffering a heart failure, Mr. Hardy, 65 was General Manager since 1974 of the Bamburi Beach Hotel, Petit pois: Having made my rather provocative remark about Mangetout, or sugar peas as they are also known, last week, I had better confirm that they are grown in Kenya very successfully for export. Presumably if one nags at one’s favorite green grocer they could be bought in Nairobi and Mombasa as well, Top computer salesman is a woman: The solar eclipse-viewed from Nairobi’s tall Hilton Hotel made a spectacular start for 21 top sales people from the world who have qualified for membership of International Computer Diamond Club. Among them was the first lady salesman Julie Turnbull from Montreal Canada, Mombasa movies: Talent and beauty are part and parcel of success especially if one is to ascend the “ladder of fame”-and one Hollywood star, with such an achievement worth mentioning is Elizabeth Montgomery daughter of thirties and forties screen star Robert Montgomery