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...resigned of my own accord, having reached my 92nd year. I credit my vitality to this service, exercising mind and body. I played squash till I was 73 and swam till I was 87, but have now replaced violent exercise by taking two walks a day. Incidentally, both President Kaunda of Zambia and the Queen of England honored me for my service in Zambia. So I can recommend that the elderly carry on with their work as long as health and a demand for their services will allow them...
...Minerals,'" Pogrund says, "that means copper. Kaunda [Kenneth D. Kaunda, the president of Zambia, which shares the same rail line] depends on copper for his survival. The railway through Angola was destroyed during the war; he has to send the copper through South Africa. He may be distressed that his black brothers are being discriminated against, but he'll strike a deal with Vorster...
ZAMBIA. Pop. 5,100,000. Independent (from Britain) since 1964. One-party government based on President Kenneth Kaunda's philosophy of "Humanism," which he defines as primary concern for "the dignity of the individual." Literacy: 20%. Per capita G.N.P.: $500. Economy is almost entirely dependent on copper for cash income and is currently in deep recession because of a drop in world prices...
...Kaunda, 52, is the most peace-minded of the front-line five. He met with South Africa's Vorster and Rhodesia's Smith in a failed effort to get Rhodesian negotiations under way last year, but has since reluctantly endorsed the armed struggle. His country now harbors 2,500 Rhodesian and 6,000 Namibian guerrillas...
Nkomo has strong support in the rural tribal regions and a tightly organized core of followers elsewhere. He is a friend of Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...