Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...profit a company can take out of the country. Most of the nationalized companies were retail outlets, breweries or other small businesses that he eventually plans, in the second stage of his "revolution," to turn over to cooperative management by blacks. Big foreign producers, such as the British-American copper companies, were not among those nationalized...
Above all, man should strive to parallel natural decay by recycling-reusing as much waste as possible. Resalvaging already keeps 80% of all mined copper in circulation...