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Last week crocodiles still infested the Zambezi as Barotseland's latest Litunga, Sir Mwamawina Lewanika III, 75, entertained his new overlord. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's newest and most moderate leaders, wanted to make a good impression on the province he had inherited five months ago when Northern Rhodesia became independent. Kaunda accompanied the Litunga to the royal barge, where Sir Mwamawina switched his garb-from a frock coat, striped trousers and pearl-grey topper to the Royal Navy uniform his father had worn...
...homemade, muzzle-loading guns into the night. In Lusaka, the capital, representatives from more than 60 nations gathered to watch the lighting of a 6-ft. freedom flame marking the rechristening of Northern Rhodesia as Zambia * and its proclamation as an independent republic within the British Commonwealth. President Kenneth Kaunda tooled around about town in his $11,000 Chrysler Imperial convertible, happily waving to the cheering citizenry. Said he: "At the moment, all is gay-but soon the problems will have to be faced...
Prison Graduate. The biggest cause for optimism is Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda himself. A teetotaling, guitar-strumming, nonsmoking Presbyterian preacher's son and ex-schoolteacher, Kaunda spent eleven months in British jails-long enough to qualify him for leadership of the ruling United National Independence Party, but not long enough to make him a bitter enemy of the British, who ruled Northern Rhodesia for 73 years. A moderate, Kaunda opposes black racism as practiced by some of the newly independent African states, instead advocates a "multiracial society" providing equal rights for Zambia's 74,000 whites...
Startling Vision. Yet Kaunda is painfully aware that Zambia's economy is almost wholly dependent on neighboring white-ruled countries. Zambia's exports flow through the railroads and ports of South Africa, Rhodesia and the Portuguese colonies, and two-thirds of Zambia's imports come from the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia...
...diminish Zambia's dependence on the white-ruled neighbors, Kaunda wants to form an East African federation with Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. He has obtained agreement in principle for a 1,268-mile railroad linking Lusaka with Dar es Salaam-but the line may not be completed until 1970 or later. After being proclaimed the new nation's President-elect, Kaunda told the crowd of his vision of a free and peaceful Zambia "where people of all tribes, races, beliefs and opinions, political and otherwise, will be able to live happily and in harmony...