Word: kaunda
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...nation Commonwealth last week. Actually, relations between Thatcher and her Commonwealth colleagues were strained at the beginning of the session and got steadily worse. In the end Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi accused Britain of "compromising its basic values for economic gain." An even angrier Kenneth Kaunda, the President of Zambia, described Thatcher as a "pathetic figure" who was "worshiping platinum and gold...
Present at the divisive Marlborough House summit, in addition to Gandhi and Kaunda, were Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada, Robert Hawke of Australia, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Sir Lynden Pindling of the Bahamas. On the second day of the meeting, Thatcher dropped her opposition to a proposed European Community ban on South African coal, steel and iron, and said she would accept "voluntary" restrictions on new British investment and the promotion of South African tourism. For the other six leaders present, this was nowhere near enough. Together they endorsed a set of sanctions proposed at a previous Commonwealth...
Like many African leaders, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda has repeatedly called for economic sanctions against South Africa. He has even threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth if Britain fails to punish Pretoria. Yet Kaunda's country can ill afford sanctions. Landlocked Zambia, already suffering through its worst recession since independence in 1964, buys much of its industrial and agricultural equipment from Pretoria and has almost two- thirds of its non-oil imports shipped through South Africa. If the West were to impose sanctions on South Africa, economic necessity, compounded by a sense of vengeance, would probably move Pretoria to stop...
...which Britain is likely to find itself a minority of one on the subject of sanctions. Last month, after a visit to South Africa, some members of the Commonwealth's Eminent Persons Group declared that the worsening situation made sanctions a necessity. At least one Commonwealth leader, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, has threatened to pull his country out of the organization unless Britain adopts a firmer policy on the South African issue. So last week the British government took the symbolic step of inviting Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, to meet with Lynda Chalker, a minister...
...Kenneth Kaunda, 61, who has been President of Zambia since his country's independence in 1964, is one of black Africa's elder statesmen. Though not a Marxist, he is a firmly committed nationalist who supported the independence struggles in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Kaunda is, however, also a devout Christian who believes that "when the good Lord said 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' he didn't mention color." He has met with South African leaders in an effort to bring about an end to apartheid. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk...