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...acquisition of East Timor (TIME, June 14). An increasingly aggressive North Korea issued strident demands that the U.S. withdraw its defense forces from South Korea. Libya's Gaddafi threatened to proclaim a "balance sheet" of member countries that, in his view, "leaned toward imperialism." Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, usually a quiet-spoken man, gave a shouting, lectern-thumping performance that amounted to a virtual declaration of war against Rhodesia and South Africa. "Assistance is urgently required," he said, "in the following fields: arms and ammunition, transport, food and medical facilities and personnel." Finally, the conference passed a resolution...
...good reason, therefore, do many of Africa's most respected leaders privately express their revulsion for Amin. At last week's annual summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity, where Amin's one-year term as chairman ended, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda pointedly refused to shake his hand. Several days later, a Kenyan government statement probably best summed it up, with some exaggeration, when it pitied "the peace-loving people of Uganda" for living under "the world's greatest dictator...
...ever done. "We are of Africa and our destiny is in Africa, nowhere else," Vorster declared in an epochal "crossroads" speech two years ago, announcing Pretoria's readiness for political accommodation and economic cooperation with Africa's black nations. Vorster's speech moved Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, a black, to exclaim: "This is the voice of reason for which the world has been waiting...
...Vorster flew secretly to the Ivory Coast in 1974 to meet with President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Senegal's visiting President, Leopold Senghor. Later he made a covert plane trip to Liberia for talks with President William Tolbert. Last year he met publicly with Zambia's President Kaunda at Victoria Falls on the Rhodesia-Zambia border in what proved to be an unsuccessful effort to achieve a Rhodesian settlement...
...Mozambique has placed the Rhodesian government in an untenable position. Prime Minister Ian Smith's stubborn refusal to cooperate in a raid transition to black majority rule has compelled neighboring black governments to support a full-scale guerilla war. Even such pro-Western leaders as Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda expressed their willingness to accept Soviet and Cuban aid to toppling the Smith regime...