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Though the temperature was in the 90s, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda was in the mood to deliver a sermon. On a dusty polo field in the copper city of Kitwe, Kaunda, who is the son of a Presbyterian preacher, warned last week of the perils of drunkenness and lack of discipline among workers...
...from Britain, Kaunda promised that each of his people would have an egg and a pint of milk a day by 1970. It was a modest enough goal. Zambia, moreover, was a nation of abundant resources, including a lot of fertile land and much of the world's copper, co-salt, lead and zinc. But political forces lave conspired to block progress toward Kaunda's goal, and he has become so frustrated by the obstacles that at times he is driven to public tears...
...along with United Nations sanctions against the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia, from which Zambia bought almost all of its imports. The government thereupon had to impose rationing, buy its goods in more expensive markets and ship by air and truck routes the bulk of the copper that once moved cheaply over Rhodesia's railroad to ports in Mozambique. As a result, Kaunda has had to curtail his $1.2 billion four-year development plan. Because of high black unemployment, average income is only about $200 a year...
...symbol of God's watchful but now indifferent eye, is spared in the ensuing fire. Eventually even this emblem is hauled down from its pinnacle. Placed in the hands of the Church's absurd minister it is found to measure only "five feet from beak to tail feathers; the copper penny of his eye was tiny...
...novel it is impossible to remember who is married to whom. In adultery the tenuous meaning we create by marriage is destroyed, and one human is the same as any other. Eros is no respector of persons. Sexuality is a force as indifferent as electricity to the copper wire of our bodies. Women are, as Piet Hanema, the main character says, "vessels to be filled...