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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 6, 1976 | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Walking Blindfolded Through a Minefield | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A GUIDE TO THE BLACK FRONT | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A GUIDE TO THE BLACK FRONT | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: FOUR WHO MIGHT LEAD | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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