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...Front-Line States. [Samora] Machel [of Mozambique] and [Kenneth] Kaunda [of Zambia] want to end the Rhodesian problem even more than I do. U.S. and British recognition of the internal settlement would give them the out they are looking for. Kaunda said to me once, "If only the British government would have the guts to face up to its responsibility in settling the issue, while I would make a few unpleasant noises in public for a few days, that evening I would fall down on my knees and thank the good Lord." He wants it resolved desperately, as does Machel...
Although dictated by economic necessity, Kaunda's decision to flout United Nations sanctions against the breakaway British colony could potentially fracture the unity of the front-line states (the others: Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique and Botswana). Their goal is to install a black majority government in Rhodesia, preferably headed by leaders of the Patriotic Front. The Front's guerrillas greeted the reopening of the railroad by blowing up tracks in southwest Rhodesia. The damage was quickly repaired...
...theft, widespread mismanagement and frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...
...Kaunda's announcement came as Smith, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who is one of his three black colleagues on the Rhodesian Executive Council, and twelve other ranking officials in the government were en route to the U.S. Smith told a press conference in Salisbury that he hoped "to give the American people the truth. If they still think we are wrong, and they still want to condemn us, that is fair. But I don't think they will...
Meanwhile, at week's end the presidents of three of the front-line states -Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Angola's Agostinho Neto and Mozambique's Samora Machel-convened a meeting in Zambia to talk Kaunda into changing his mind. One of the problems both Zambia and Tanzania will face as a result of Kaunda's decision is that the Tazara railroad will be plunged into financial straits, making it difficult for the two governments to pay back a $450 million Chinese loan used to build the railroad...