Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most African nations have achieved their independence only to find themselves too broke to enjoy it. Not Zambia, the copper-rich state that changed its name from Northern Rhodesia at independence ceremonies last year. Riding a world copper boom that has brought $400 million into the country in the past year alone, President Kenneth Kaunda is in the enviable position of having more money than can be spent...
Also symbolic are the four colors of Zambia's flag: green is for agriculture, orange for copper, red for the blood spilled in the struggle for freedom, and black for the people. "And what holds it up?" asks a cynical European. "A white flagpole." Such remarks are typical of many of Zambia's 77,000 whites, on whom the country depends to keep its copper mines humming and its commerce thriving. Some still resent a black government in a land so long under white rule. Kaunda shrugs off the attitude. Far from wanting to drive the whites...
Zambia imports more than 60% of its consumer goods from Rhodesia and South Africa, could not run its copper smelters without Rhodesian coal and can ship its vital copper exports to the sea only via a Rhodesian-operated railroad to ports in South Africa and Portuguese Mozambique...
...industrial level, the pressure of price rises is, if anything, even greater. There have been recent price increases for copper, brass, tin, 20% of all steel products, and such basic industrial chemicals as sulphuric acid and alum. A 5% price hike by a major maker of machine tools is expected to be followed by others. Textiles are more expensive than a few months ago, and so are electric tape and heating oil. Last week three more producers increased the price of containers-historically a leading indicator of general price movements...
...world power in tennis, but it did boast the world's best clay-court player in Manuel Santana, 27, a tenacious, skillful shotmaker who had won his last eight Davis Cup singles matches without losing a set. And when the visiting Americans got a look at the copper-colored center court at Barcelona's Real Club de Tenis, they knew they were in trouble. Slowed even more than normal by heavy rains, the soft surface took the bite out of the serves and volleys, made smashes as easy to handle as lobs. "The name of the game here...