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A solar eclipse and fears of an apocalypse

BY JOSEPH KARIMI

On the afternoon of Saturday, June 30, 1973, in the days of the great  race to the moon, 160 Kenyans  took off the ground for a picnic to witness a rare occurrence – a total eclipse of the sun. I was one of them.

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