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...richest black country in Africa south of the Sahara. It had $1.1 billion in foreign reserves, plus the world's second largest copper-mining industry. It also had emeralds, other gemstones and immense fertile areas. It had the potential to become southern Africa's breadbasket, and President Kenneth Kaunda promised every Zambian a pint of milk...
...Kaunda ruled for 27 years, then gambled on elections last year and lost. When the Movement for Multiparty Democracy government took over last November, its members were stunned by the decay and confusion they found. Morale among civil servants was abysmal, corruption pandemic. The new Minister of Agriculture found his office building vandalized; employees had stolen not only the light bulbs but also the lighting fixtures...
...country's first multiparty election since 1968, voters emphatically rejected founding father Kenneth Kaunda in a landslide for the opposition. Kaunda, 67, had been President since Zambia gained independence from Britain in 1964 and led black Africa against apartheid. But his authoritarian rule and economic mismanagement led to riots and an aborted coup last year that forced him to legalize rival parties...
...Kaunda's people would have preferred him to step down gracefully instead of fighting to the bitter end. But Kaunda's lasting legacy may be the election itself. By accepting the results of a free, hard-fought contest, he provided a democratic model for the rest of a continent still dominated by one-party dictatorships...
Where is Saddam Hussein hiding his wife Sajida and their several children? Conflicting reports have placed the dictator's clan in Switzerland, in Mauritania and in northern Zambia. Each location has some plausibility, the last because Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's President, visited Baghdad in early January and has accepted Iraqi financial help...