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...busy with a rescue operation of his own. Clad in battle fatigues and accompanied by an honor guard and a brass band, he appeared again and again at Lubumbashi airport at the head of a cavalcade of Jeeps and Mercedes sedans. He greeted Zambia's visiting President Kenneth Kaunda, and China's Foreign Minister Huang Hua, who had flown to Shaba to emphasize Peking's opposition to Soviet-Cuban influence in Africa. On his visit to Peking, President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, had reportedly urged the Chinese to take a stronger role...
...century imperialist understates the restless, driving ambition and material success of Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 60, chief executive of the London-based conglomerate Lonrho, Ltd. Rowland has transformed a small initial stake in Africa into one of the continent's biggest commercial empires. Among his friends are Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre, Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya -not to mention Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia...
...guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front.* Among other things, he footed a $65,000 hotel bill for Nkomo and his entourage at the unsuccessful Geneva peace talks of 1976. Last September, Rowland flew Ian Smith in a Lonrho Learjet to a clandestine meeting with Zambia's Kaunda, one of the five front-line black leaders supporting the Patriotic Front. In February, Smith asked Rowland to arrange another meeting between Kaunda and a senior white Rhodesian Cabinet minister. Smith's goal: to get Kaunda's help in bringing Nkomo into the interim Executive Council that now rules Rhodesia...
...million for the nationalized properties; whatever their worth, they make only a tiny contribution to the company's total revenues ($2.5 billion last year). The Tanzanian President hoped that other African countries would follow his lead in chastising the corporate giant. No such luck. Zambia's Kaunda, whose country's ailing economy might collapse if Rowland abandoned his interests there, made it clear that he would not touch Lonrho. But even with the support of his friends, it looked as if Tiny Rowland's days as a behind-the-scenes matchmaker in Rhodesian politics might...
...young blacks in South Africa, who believe that Washington's way offers no solution at all, are turning instead to the growing influence of Cuba and the Soviet Union. It was only three years ago, during their lightning advance across Angola, that Zambia's anxious President Kenneth Kaunda rushed to confer with Prime Minister John Vorster, describing the Communists as the 'plundering tigers of Africa.' What are those same tigers now doing right? Nothing very different. But at least they are candid about their own self-interest and know when to hand out the arms...