Word: copperizing
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...junta only as "technicians." The new government, however, appeared to have general support from the middle and upper classes. The truckers, whose 45-day strike was partly responsible for instigating the coup, were on the road again. "Those trucks started up out of pure joy," said one trucker. Copper mines, plagued by work stoppages under Allende, were generally operating smoothly as the junta gave priority to economic recovery...
...long and colorful history of railroading, few tracks have been laid any faster than those of the Tanzam Railway, which is currently moving southwestward from the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam to the copper belt of Zambia at the extraordinary rate of three miles a day. The 1,162-mile line, financed with the help of a $402 million interest-free loan from China, is being built by 15,000 Chinese, laboring alongside 35,000 Zambians and Tanzanians. The hardest part of the job - 21 tunnels, 200 bridges and some 1,000 culverts in Tanzania - has already been completed...
...railroad will strengthen Tanzania's economy by opening up the southern part of the country. It will have an even more dramatic effect on landlocked Zambia, which is the world's largest exporter of copper (an estimated 750,000 tons this year). Prosperous though it is, however, Zambia has been uncomfortably dependent on the white states around it - Rhodesia and the Portuguese territories of Angola and Mozambique - since its independence...
Early this year, Rhodesia closed its borders with Zambia on the ground that Zambians had been aiding black guerrillas within Rhodesia. The government of Prime Minister Ian Smith specifically exempted Zambian copper from the blockade. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, 49, decided, however, to stand on principle and refused to export his country's copper via Rhodesia. A month later, when the Rhodesians lifted their blockade, Kaunda imposed one of his own. He has refrained ever since from importing or exporting any goods through the rebel British colony...
...country has fared surprisingly well - largely because the price of copper has almost doubled since January...