Word: kaunda
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Misguided Mentor. The tramp of 1,000,000 eligible Zambians to the polls was indeed a stirring demonstration of what President Kenneth Kaunda calls "the cause of the common man." Although there were battles and at least 25 deaths in pre-election campaigning, Kaunda was determined that such internecine struggle should be ended after election day. "I have no doubt," he said, "that young Zambia will be one of those few countries to break the nasty record in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where post-independence elections have brought some kind of confusion...
...that tribalism can be used to create national unity as well as shred it. In Zambia last year, for example, the country's angry young university graduates pressured older politicians to step aside, and typically inflated assorted tribal claims to clothe their ambitions. Seizing the tribal issues, President Kenneth Kaunda created a unifying nationalist ideology?a supratribal humanism based on what he called the old tribal concept of "a mutual aid society." With that New Dealish theme, Kaunda remains firmly in power...
...central theme of speeches and skull sessions alike was the gulf between rich and poor nations, and the moral dilemma posed by that fact for churchmen. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda struck the keynote -"the end of an era of optimism," and the "disappointment and disillusionment" of the newly independent nations. In underdeveloped countries, he charged, the West "seeks only maximum profit and makes development a mere windfall gain -mere crumbs falling from the rich man's table." Simplistic as it sounded, Kaunda's speech reflected the mood of the "third world" as voiced at Uppsala...
...twin-spired Gothic cathedral, trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan...
Little Comfort. Probably to create an illusion of progress, Kaunda recently nationalized 24 companies owned by foreigners and cut to 50% the amount of profit a company can take out of the country. Most of the nationalized companies were retail outlets, breweries or other small businesses that he eventually plans, in the second stage of his "revolution," to turn over to cooperative management by blacks. Big foreign producers, such as the British-American copper companies, were not among those nationalized...