Word: kaunda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, the blacks and whites of Central Africa have been squabbling over control of Northern Rhodesia, a sprawling African territory containing 2,400,000 people above ground and 700 million tons of copper reserves below. Racing in and out of London, African Leader Kenneth Kaunda insisted that nothing short of majority control for the blacks would be acceptable in the new constitution being drafted. Portly Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky fought back with stern threats; fearful that black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless...
...breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it." But Welensky seemed happy enough at the outcome. Not so Kaunda, whose blacks-95% of the population-would have a large voice in the legislature for the first time, but no guaranteed, clear-cut majority. Kaunda, 37, is normally a mild-mannered man and conspicuously dedicated to the ways of moderation. But he returned from London shaking with fury. Angrily declaring that Macleod had given the blacks advance assurance of a "small majority," he announced: "The British government has completely betrayed...
Putting his party on an emergency footing, Kaunda declared that a massive passive resistance campaign would soon begin. "We control the kitchens, the mines, the shops, the airways-everything," he cried. Kaunda insisted that the "master plan" would be peaceful: "We will not lift a stone, a panga, a club, a spear." But next day he was off again on another trip, this time to Accra and talks with Ghana's rambunctious Kwame Nkrumah, who not only advocates violence, if necessary, to sweep the white man out of Africa, but has received hundreds of tons of Soviet arms...
First Gong. The plan must still be sold to the Northern Rhodesians, and that will be harder. Only the moderate multiracial Liberal Party, which stands to win a good number of the swing seats, endorsed the scheme. Kaunda and his fellow nationalists might eventually cooperate, on the theory that the new constitution is at least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest...
...Macleod's dogged mind, the greater danger is not bruised white feelings but open black rebellion. Warned Kenneth Kaunda recently: continued white domination of Northern Rhodesia would bring "an explosion of a far-reaching nature" that would "by contrast make Kenya's Mau Mau seem a child's picnic...