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...Last year Julius Nyerere's oft-muddled government confiscated 34,000 acres of rich white-owned farmlands merely to assuage African resentments (and perhaps to undercut Communist pressures from within the government). But even at that, Tanzania's Agriculture Minister is a moderate ex-colonial, Derek Bryceson, who was overwhelmingly re-elected last month as a Government Party stalwart. Salaam is as benign and friendly a city as a European could hope to visit...
...officeholders. Only 16 members of the current Parliament managed to get themselves reelected, and among the losers were nine ranking party officials, including Finance Minister Paul Bomani, who had invoked the wrath of the electorate by raising income taxes. One of the biggest winners: hard-working Health Minister Derek Bryceson, the only white in Nyerere's Cabinet, who carried his Dar es Salaam district by a resounding 30,000 votes...
...British official of the government of Tanganyika will speak in the Winthrop House C-Entry Common Room at 8 p.m. tonight. Derek Bryceson, Minister of Health and Labor, will discuss the "Problems of an Independent African Government." The talk will be open to the public...
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