Word: kaunda
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...stick. South African steel, autos and sugar find their way into most of the nations supporting the ban. Reason: South Africa's advanced technology, low labor costs and modest shipping charges result in price tags many Black Africans find irresistible. "My country," sighs Northern Rhodesian Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda, "cannot afford to boycott South Africa...
Thus last week Northern Rhodesian Prime Minister Kenneth ("The Black Lion"*) Kaunda returned from London bearing a long-coveted gift for his 3,500,000 people: a fixed date for independence. Next Oct. 24, Northern Rhodesia will become the Common wealth Republic of Zambia...
...reason is that, despite its need to develop educational and agricultural resources, Northern Rhodesia is inherently richer than its two neighbors-thanks to fabulous copper reserves that net $336 million a year. A more important cause for optimism is Kenneth Kaunda himself. A teetotaling preacher's son and ex-schoolteacher, Kaunda, 40, is a fiery nationalist who has spent his share of time in British prisons. But he has since convinced his former masters that he has the makings of a moderate African statesman in the mold of Tanganyika's Nyerere. Kaunda advocates a "multiracial society" that will...
...Nonsense. During the 16-day independence conference in London, Kaunda so impressed the Colonial Office that Northern Rhodesia will be the first British-ruled territory allowed to make the jump to full independence without the usual period of dominion status under the symbolic tutelage of a Queen's governor-general. Under a new constitution that includes safeguards for individual rights, Kaunda will take over as President...
After his return home, Kaunda beamingly shook hands with his Cabinet ministers, who had turned out in slogan-emblazoned "freedom shirts." Then he drove through cheering crowds to his neon-lighted United National Independence Party headquarters (formerly a dry-cleaning plant). There he praised his reception as "nonracial, nontribal and purely Zambian." Then the Black Lion, who has shrewdly raised the pay of his soldiers and police to discourage dissension like that which jarred East Africa, made clear that he can be as tough as he is mild-mannered. Said he, addressing himself to his country's often troublesome...