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...choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville banquets, then approved a resolution, proposed by Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, that virtually recognizes the Patriotic Front as the sole representative of black nationalists in Rhodesia. The front was designated as the only legitimate recipient of OAU financial...
...antiaircraft battery was suddenly rolled into place on a golf course near Lusaka International Airport last week. Zambian armed forces went on alert, leaves were canceled, and President Kenneth Kaunda issued orders to "shoot on sight" any Rhodesian aircraft that violated his country's airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls...
Rhodesian officials shrugged off Kaunda's declaration as the diplomatic equivalent of a mosquito bite, but the brutal civil war in the runaway British colony continues-and it is the innocent who suffer most. Caught in the political crossfire, terrorized black villagers are beaten, tortured or murdered by guerrillas if they refuse to help the cause, jailed and sometimes hanged by Rhodesian government forces if they do. Earlier this month, a 15-man security-force patrol tracked a team of guerrillas through the Ndanga Tribal Trust Land to Dabwe Kraal. When darkness fell, the troops climbed over a fence...
...Saudis' money. Perhaps so. But black African leaders enthusiastically accepted the offers at face value and in turn pledged their renewed commitment to the Arabs' diplomatic campaign against Israel. The conference also enhanced the sense of identity between the two regions. Said Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda: "We are the product of the same struggle against domination and exploitation by foreign interests ... In division, we cannot face the industrialized nations on equal terms...
...that Amin seems to be in fairly firm control of his army, and no force is prepared to do him in for the sake of humanity. Other black African countries are ambivalent about him. A few African leaders, notably Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, have spoken out strongly against Amin; the majority find him a terrible embarrassment but have remained silent. They realize that Amin's buffoonery has sometimes obscured a far more serious problem, the black-white struggle in southern Africa, and has given the white governments of Rhodesia and South Africa...