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...election day, voters had to dip their left thumb in a bottle of indelible red ink to prevent repeat performances. Even without repeats, the popular winner by far was Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, 38, whose United National Independence Party drew 65,000 votes with its slogan, "Kwacha!" (Dawn), and its appeal for more black power. But Kaunda won only 14 seats, and Welensky's United Federal Party, with one-third of the votes, won 15. The African National Congress of roisterous Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's ex-mentor, won five seats. Ten seats were left vacant because too few voters...
Long Run. With no majority, British-appointed Governor Sir Evelyn Hone refused to form a government, preferring to wait until a special election for the empty seats is held Dec. 10. But in the long run, the big winner will probably be Kaunda, a teetotaling advocate of Gandhian nonviolence whose straight-up hairdo gives him the look of a man permanently frightened by a ghost. With his huge plurality, he can legitimately claim a mandate for a new constitution guaranteeing more power to the blacks, and he aims to do just that. "Our first goal," he says, "is stable government...
...because of racial conflict between its 300,000 whites and 7,000,000 Africans. Nyasaland, under fervid African Nationalist Hastings Banda, is ready to secede from the federation, and secession ist pressure is steadily mounting in Northern Rhodesia, where the United National Independence Party of wiry, in tense Kenneth Kaunda is expected to win handsomely in next October's elections. With Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia gone, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia would be left with no hinterland in which to market its manufactured goods...
...South Africa Co., last of England's royal charter companies operating in Africa. B.S.A. runs no mines, instead collects handsome royalties ($28 million in 1961) from land leases. Under aging (77) Colonel the Lord Robins, a transplanted Philadelphian and onetime Rhodes scholar, B.S.A. has consistently fought rising Kenneth Kaunda and, by general rumor, still shovels money to rival-and less aggressive-African leaders. As a result, according to Rhodesians, "Kaunda has declared war on B.S.A." Although Lord Robins earlier this month announced his retirement as B.S.A.'s president, the war seems certain to continue, and B.S.A. now reinvests...
...Kaunda burst into tears.) Nationalist leaders nicknamed Welensky "the Elephant"; in their eyes, he was almost literally a white elephant in modern Africa...