Word: kaunda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever done. "We are of Africa and our destiny is in Africa, nowhere else," Vorster declared in an epochal "crossroads" speech two years ago, announcing Pretoria's readiness for political accommodation and economic cooperation with Africa's black nations. Vorster's speech moved Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, a black, to exclaim: "This is the voice of reason for which the world has been waiting...
...Vorster flew secretly to the Ivory Coast in 1974 to meet with President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Senegal's visiting President, Leopold Senghor. Later he made a covert plane trip to Liberia for talks with President William Tolbert. Last year he met publicly with Zambia's President Kaunda at Victoria Falls on the Rhodesia-Zambia border in what proved to be an unsuccessful effort to achieve a Rhodesian settlement...
...Mozambique has placed the Rhodesian government in an untenable position. Prime Minister Ian Smith's stubborn refusal to cooperate in a raid transition to black majority rule has compelled neighboring black governments to support a full-scale guerilla war. Even such pro-Western leaders as Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda expressed their willingness to accept Soviet and Cuban aid to toppling the Smith regime...
...greatest fears were that it might already be too late to find a political solution to Africa's problems, given the momentum of the guerrilla buildup against Rhodesia. Nyerere had warned even before Kissinger's speech that "the war has already begun." Echoing that sentiment, Kaunda urged that Kissinger's program be "worked upon as quickly as possible, because in terms of time we do not have it." In response, Kissinger made it clear that the U.S. would be glad to act as a mediator in negotiations between black liberationists and the Rhodesian government...
...southern Africa. As one Kissinger aide said: "It's the first time in a long time that we are doing the moral thing." The reaction in black Africa was cautiously favorable. Tanzania's government-controlled Daily News saw the Lusaka speech as a "psychological boost"; Zambian President Kaunda praised it as "an important turning point...