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During last winter's elections that brought Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party to power, the only serious violence at the polls occurred in the northeastern districts, and they involved not Kaunda's political opponents but the zealous followers of a religious prophetess named Alice Lenshina. It seems that Kaunda's agents tried to force her people to vote. They did not want to, and by the time the excitement was over, a number of people were dead. Last week Alice's followers were at it again, this time sparking a major rebellion that...
...magic word was not much help in last week's fighting, touched off when a teen-age Lumpa was thrashed by his uncle, a Kaunda man, for playing hooky from school. In the early battles, angry Lumpas reportedly speared 50 of Kaunda's followers, then herded 150 women and children into their grass huts and burned them alive. A day later, the rampaging Lumpas, springing from the tall elephant grass, ambushed a police detachment and killed its British officer...
...stick. South African steel, autos and sugar find their way into most of the nations supporting the ban. Reason: South Africa's advanced technology, low labor costs and modest shipping charges result in price tags many Black Africans find irresistible. "My country," sighs Northern Rhodesian Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda, "cannot afford to boycott South Africa...
...Nonsense. During the 16-day independence conference in London, Kaunda so impressed the Colonial Office that Northern Rhodesia will be the first British-ruled territory allowed to make the jump to full independence without the usual period of dominion status under the symbolic tutelage of a Queen's governor-general. Under a new constitution that includes safeguards for individual rights, Kaunda will take over as President...
After his return home, Kaunda beamingly shook hands with his Cabinet ministers, who had turned out in slogan-emblazoned "freedom shirts." Then he drove through cheering crowds to his neon-lighted United National Independence Party headquarters (formerly a dry-cleaning plant). There he praised his reception as "nonracial, nontribal and purely Zambian." Then the Black Lion, who has shrewdly raised the pay of his soldiers and police to discourage dissension like that which jarred East Africa, made clear that he can be as tough as he is mild-mannered. Said he, addressing himself to his country's often troublesome...