Attwood Accused of Violation of Ethics and Error in Judgment That May Hurt U.S. - In a rare moment of diplomatic family feuding in public, the American ambassador to Kenya Tuesday accused his predecessor, William Attwood, of a violation of ethics and an error of judgment for writing a book on Africa that may hurt the United States. The accusation by Ambassador Glenn W. Ferguson reflected the bitterness both in the Kenya government and in the U.S. Embassy here over the speed of Attwood in publishing his book, "The Reds and the Blacks," less than a year after he left the foreign service to become editor-in-chief of Cowles Communications, the publishers of Look magazine. On Sunday, for example, Kenya Attorney General Charles Njonjo said Attwood was guilty of "a of faith and confidence" for reporting his private conversations with Njonjo in the book. Njonjo said he would now be suspicious of diplomats. That suspicion, Njonjo said, would make the work of Attwood's successor, Ferguson, more difficult...

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