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Paschal Mihyo, a law professor and associate dean at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, said last night that socialism offers "the best possible solution" to Africa's developmental problems...
...fight among themselves. By early March Nyerere had apparently become fed up with the continued political infighting. He was also annoyed that Binaisa's aides put all the blame on his troops for a series of violent clashes between the Tanzanians and Ugandan villagers. He summoned Binaisa to Dar es Salaam and told him bluntly that Tanzania would withdraw half of its troops by the end of the month and the remainder before December. Binaisa is unsure about the loyalty of the new Ugandan army, which placed its first 5,700 troops on active duty last week...
Arriving in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ali immediately demonstrated that he had not been well briefed for his mission. He was apparently unaware that the Soviet Union had been backing revolutionary liberation movements on the continent. Why, some local reporters also demanded, should Africa boycott the Moscow Olympics when four years ago the U.S. had opposed an African Olympic boycott called to protest New Zealand's sporting links with South Africa? Ali fumbled for an answer and found none...
...Dacca, Bangladesh, eager buyers crowd around empty tanks to wait for deliveries of scarce and costly kerosene. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzanians line up for hours for deliveries of sugar and other basic necessities that are hopelessly delayed, partly because there is little gasoline for trucks. Gas is rationed; service stations are closed three days a week; and President Julius Nyerere urges his Cabinet members to ride bicycles to work. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian cab drivers crowd the streets and snarl traffic during a three-day strike to protest a 58% rise in gasoline prices. Meanwhile, riots break...
...DIVIDE your free time between researching the life of Betsy Ross and planning DAR functions, you might like The Rivalry. And then again, you might not. The play reminds you of those self-consciously patriotic shows that toured public schools during the Bicentennial. Most of them were vastly forgettable, and The Rivalry is no exception...