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John D. Gerhart '65 is a CRIMSON reporter now teaching in Dar es Salaam with Project Tanganyika...
...city of Dar es Salaam woke early on the morning of Saturday, January 25. At about 6:15 citizens all over the sprawling capital were shaken out of bed by what some thought at first was an early onset of the monsoon season. But the evenly-spaced rumblings in the distance were not thunder; they were a diversionary barrage from the anti-aircraft guns of the British aircraft carrier Centaur. By 7 a.m., when government workers began leaving for their 7:30 jobs, Tanganyika's five-day-old army mutiny was over and East Africa's oldest independent government...
...Rifles members were killed; and though several hundred soldiers escaped in the bush, all but a handful were quickly recaptured. The exercise was directed by the commanding officer of the Tanganyikan forces, a Britisher who had escaped the mutiny on Monday and had been hiding in European homes in Dar's fashionable Oyster Bay area during the week...
Though they had never been in danger during the revolt, Dar's British citizens were thrilled to have the "shocking do" over with, and "the boys" standing guard. The New Africa Hotel did a landslide afternoon tea business. There was a band concert by the forces on the following afternoon. Smiling Scotsmen bought cases of beer and Fanta for the troops. Our neighbors spoke to us for the second time in six months, the first time having been on Monday when the "do" began...
Easing the Sting. Even as British helicopters fluttered over the bush back of Dar es Salaam, rounding up the last of Tanganyika's mutineers, Julius Nyerere was taking steps to ease the sting of shame his cry for assistance had caused. He called for a meeting of 34 African foreign and defense ministers in Dar es Salaam this week to consider "the implications for African unity and our nonalignment policies of the happenings in East Africa." A longtime booster of East African federation, Nyerere hopes to lay the groundwork for a mutual defense agreement that would eliminate the need...