Word: dar
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...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...
...results were surprising. Forced to return to their districts for the first time in five years, many Congressmen found themselves accused of ignoring the home folks, breaking previous campaign promises for new roads and wells, and living it up in Dar es Salaam. Voters who showed up at one rally greeted their Congressman with such prolonged boos that he went home and shot himself, "accidentally," in the hand. Another was haunted by the local witch-doctor, who went so far as to put a bloodstained coffin containing a strangled chicken outside the polling booth on election...
...threat of economic strangulation has forced Kaunda to seek another outlet for his copper. Last month he met with Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere to talk over long-simmering plans for a 1,000-mile rail line eastward to Dar es Salaam. The railway would cost a staggering $200 million or so, but Nyerere seems as interested in pushing it through as is Kaunda. It would turn Dar es Salaam into East Africa's busiest port, open up a massive, uninhabited southern region that is known to contain valuable coal deposits. Besides, Nyerere would like to break...
...which wants to embargo imports from Kenya and so end the unfavorable trade balance it has traditionally had with its more highly developed neighbor. In order to do so, Tanzania apparently plans to import the bulk of its goods instead from Red China under aid agreements, and shops in Dar es Salaam last week were already displaying Chinese-made bicycles, canned mandarin oranges, and radios...
That might have been the thing to say a few years ago, but it's not very popular in Africa now. The continent's leaders, once strong for revolution, are now well aware whose heads would roll the next time around. Chinese diplomats in Dar es Salaam, trying discreetly to recruit the Premier's next host, found that Guinea's Sékou Touré felt that a visit from Chou at this time might be "inconvenient." Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was "too busy." Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Nigeria were also not interested...