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...command posts late in January. Moreover, several dozen formerly discredited cadres who owe their allegiance to Chou have quietly been brought back into important government positions. Chou himself put on an impressive display of party unity recently when he appeared at a banquet for visiting Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. By his side were two of his most powerful critics: Wang Hung-wen and Chiang Ching...
...relied on existing rail lines that pass through Portuguese territory and on the highway northeast to Tanzania. The blockade is forcing Zambia to pay an extra $150 million in import-export costs, and it has led to a few shortages. "Luxury living has been given its marching orders," says Kaunda...
Zambia's credit is so good these days, in fact, that it borrowed $150 million in Eurodollars last month. It then proceeded to pay out $226 million to retire the long-term bonds it had issued in 1969 when Kaunda took over 51% of the country's leading mining companies...
Extra Clout. Kaunda's action has strengthened his position at home as the man who took the mines out of the hands of foreigners. Not that he really needed the extra clout. Earlier this year, Kaunda pushed through a new constitution that turned the country into a one-party state - the one party being his own United National Independence Party...
...years ahead, Kaunda will face another kind of internal challenge: finding ways of transferring power to the younger, better educated men now entering Zambian politics. They openly resent the old-guard politicians for their corruption, incompetence and perks of power, which the younger men refer to as the "three Ms" - mansions, Mercedes-Benzes and mistresses. But for the moment, Kaunda is indisputably the national hero, and his re-election is assured. His most impressive triumph will presumably come late next year - perhaps on Oct. 24, the tenth anniversary of his country's independence - when he stands at the throttle...