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Outcome of the election was a fore gone conclusion: a landslide victory for Kenneth Kaunda, 39, the austere, energetic minister's son who was in turn jailed by the British and later groomed by them to take over the copper-rich protectorate. Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P.) captured 55 of 75 seats in the legislative assembly, crushing the demoralized African National Congress Party of hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's onetime mentor...
...only disappointment for Kaunda was that U.N.l.P.'s European and Asian candidates failed to win any of the ten legislative seats reserved for non-Africans. They went instead to an all-white slate entered by the National Progress Party, headed by John Roberts, a former minister in a previous, European-dominated government, who predicted nonetheless: "Dr. Kaunda's Cabinet will be a very able one, probably the best in black Africa...
...people and virtually no resources except its brilliant but megalomaniacal leader Dr. Banda. Northern Rhodesia, which will obtain full independence next fall as the state of Zambia, is loaded with mineral wealth, and its copper represents one of Africa's most profitable exports. Moderate Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party seems certain to sweep the territorial elections set for Jan. 20, but Kaunda is already facing terrorist opposition from the African National Congress, led by hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula and by members of the Lumpa church, a militant African sect headed by a 39-year-old self...
...time Welensky checked into the Hyde Park Hotel, Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, top African leader in Northern Rhodesia, had already attended his first meeting with Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler to decide the fu ture course of Central Africa. Of rambunctious Sir Roy, Kaunda sneered, "We are here to rob him of his job. You might make him Lord Broken Reed." With Rab Butler, Kaunda and his fellow nationalist, Harry Nkumbula, argued for two hours Northern Rhodesia's right to secede, and asked why their country should be considered "the Cinderella of Central Africa." When Butler...
...black government in Northern Rhodesia will hardly be able to tell the difference. The Northern Rhodesian blacks already have threatened to sever economic ties unless Southern Rhodesia broadens its voting franchise and releases the African nationalists who have been placed under restriction. Otherwise, cried Nationalist Leader Kenneth Kaunda, "we will set up a tariff wall at the Zambezi and let the Southern Rhodesians eat the blankets they manufacture...