Coastweek Newspaper Vol 3 No 16 (April 18-24,1980)

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Inside this issue; Saudi-kenya ties hailed: Kenya is moving closer to Middle East as far as trade ties are concerned and President Moi may soon be making another trip to the region to cement further co-operation to the Arab world, Pope comes to kenya: Who is he? This is the man who while in Rome has said, “I may please God… make a visit to Africa……to six different African countries.” One of these African countries is Kenya, Njonjo elected: Mombasa (K.N.A.)- Numerous leaders at the coast have congratulated the former Attorney General Mr. Charles Njonjo for being nominated unopposed as the new M.P. for the Kikuyu Parliamentary Constituency, Asparagus and prawns: Asparagus has always been considered a luxury at the table. Though the ancients devoured it, they preferred the wild to the cultivated variety; in France it came into vogue during the reign of Louis xiv thanks to a man called Quintinie who cultivated asparagus beds so that the ‘Sun King’ could have the vegetables all the year round, Mombasa movies:Double Academy Award Winner Sammy Fair, who wrote his first hit tune 50 years ago, provides the music for one of the four songs in Walt Disney’s productions The Rescuers which commences on Monday at Naaz Cinema.