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Misguided Mentor. The tramp of 1,000,000 eligible Zambians to the polls was indeed a stirring demonstration of what President Kenneth Kaunda calls "the cause of the common man." Although there were battles and at least 25 deaths in pre-election campaigning, Kaunda was determined that such internecine struggle should be ended after election day. "I have no doubt," he said, "that young Zambia will be one of those few countries to break the nasty record in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where post-independence elections have brought some kind of confusion...
...Kaunda, certain of re-election as President, was actually being rather two-faced. To avoid confusion, the 44-year-old father of his country (and nine of its children) is utilizing the election to turn Zambia peaceably into a one-party state. The party, of course, is his own United National Independent Party...
...Kaunda hoped last week to make the transformation at the polls democratically. Of the 105 parliamentary seats on the ballots, 30 are already held by unopposed U.N.I.P. members. Harry Nkumbula, who was once Kaunda's political tutor and whose African National Congress was his only real opposition, charged that his candidates were barred from filing for those seats. In addition, Nkumbula was rousted out of bed in Lusaka before dawn one morning while police searched his house for weapons. The ostensible reason was that thugs from Nkumbula's party rather than foreign intruders had been responsible...
...that tribalism can be used to create national unity as well as shred it. In Zambia last year, for example, the country's angry young university graduates pressured older politicians to step aside, and typically inflated assorted tribal claims to clothe their ambitions. Seizing the tribal issues, President Kenneth Kaunda created a unifying nationalist ideology?a supratribal humanism based on what he called the old tribal concept of "a mutual aid society." With that New Dealish theme, Kaunda remains firmly in power...
...central theme of speeches and skull sessions alike was the gulf between rich and poor nations, and the moral dilemma posed by that fact for churchmen. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda struck the keynote -"the end of an era of optimism," and the "disappointment and disillusionment" of the newly independent nations. In underdeveloped countries, he charged, the West "seeks only maximum profit and makes development a mere windfall gain -mere crumbs falling from the rich man's table." Simplistic as it sounded, Kaunda's speech reflected the mood of the "third world" as voiced at Uppsala...