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Early this year, Rhodesia closed its borders with Zambia on the ground that Zambians had been aiding black guerrillas within Rhodesia. The government of Prime Minister Ian Smith specifically exempted Zambian copper from the blockade. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, 49, decided, however, to stand on principle and refused to export his country's copper via Rhodesia. A month later, when the Rhodesians lifted their blockade, Kaunda imposed one of his own. He has refrained ever since from importing or exporting any goods through the rebel British colony...
...economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that has prompted President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to call Amin "a madman" and "a buffoon...
Godwin Lewanika, 65, who succeeded to the throne in 1968, is the ceremonial leader of Zambia's 300,000 Lozis. His predecessors struggled to preserve a degree of Lozi autonomy from the encroachments of Kenneth Kaunda's central government, but Lewanika is a realist and gave up the battle. A former mine clerk and union organizer, Lewanika twice a year leads one of Africa's most impressive ceremonies-the journey of the Lozis from the 4,000-sq.-mi. flood plain (where they farm and fish from July to March) to the higher lands at the forest...
Smith had hoped that by shutting the border and cutting road and rail links with Zambia (while leaving rail lines open for copper shipments) he could force the Zambian government to crack down on the rebels. The scheme backfired badly. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who had previously given the guerrillas little encouragement, promptly stopped shipping copper through Rhodesia, a move that could mean financial disaster for the country's money-losing railroad. "History may prove it was the wrong decision," Smith conceded last week...
...Some of Kaunda's own followers are disturbed that the President, who is one of Black Africa's most respected leaders, has abandoned his longstanding belief that opposition parties can be eliminated only by the voters. Kaunda, a missionary's son, has changed somewhat from the serene, mild-mannered man in the khaki bush jacket whose patience and persuasiveness overrode much of the anger and bitterness engendered by the long fight for independence from Britain. He has a shorter temper nowadays, and is sometimes given to emotional outbursts. He is known to have been disturbed...