Word: abeid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Married. Abeid Karume, 64, fire-breathing mandarin of the Revolutionary Council of Zanzibar and First Vice President of Tanzania; and Sadya Abdalla-He, 14, a comely eighth-grade student; he for the fourth time; in a Moslem ceremony; in Zanzibar...
...Zanzibar, was talking by telephone with Robert Gordon, U.S. embassy counselor in Tanzania's coastal capital of Dar es Salaam. Their conversation was, of course, being tapped. At one point they expressed mutual regret that the State Department had not sent good wishes to Zanzibar's Boss Abeid Karume on "the twelfth"-the first anniversary of the coup d'état that gave him power on Jan. 12, 1964. Carlucci explained that celebrations of the coup had been postponed because of Ramadan, the Moslem month of fasting. Answered Gordon: "Well, make sure Karume gets the message...
Imperfect Merger. Eight months ago. President Nyerere signed the articles of confederation that united his mainland nation of Tanganyika with the tiny, troublesome offshore island state of Zanzibar. At the time, Zanzibar had just gone through a far-left coup against the ruling Arab minority. African Leader Abeid Karume had been installed as President, and his regime seemed about to slide under Peking domination. The union forestalled that, and Karume reluctantly agreed to serve under Nyerere as a mere Vice President of the newly formed nation known as Tanzania. Last week, as Nyerere paid his first state visit...
...threat struck home with Zanzibar's President Abeid Karume. Should Nyerere's cops be withdrawn, the only effective force on Zanzibar would be 300 bullyboys armed with automatic rifles who take orders from Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, and it is "Babu" who wants Moderate Karume's job. Alarmed, Karume flew to Dar es Salaam to plead with Nyerere, who listened sympathetically and offered a counter proposal: let Zanzibar immediately merge with Tanganyika...
Crying Colonialism. Less obvious but more ominous is the growing isolation of President Abeid Karume. A moder ate, ineffectual leftist, the former merchant seaman proved no match for the wily, anti-Western machinations of Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," and Moscow-trained Vice President Kassim Hanga. Solidly supported by a cadre of younger Marxists, Babu and Hanga now control half of the Revolutionary Council, can usually work their will and twist any issue simply by crying "colonialism." They were able to replace Treasury Secretary Herbert Hawker, a Briton, with an East German Communist "adviser...