Word: lusaka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade ago, socialism seemed to be on the ascendancy, despite some severe cracks in its facade. In Bombay and Bangkok, in Lima and Lusaka, governments were nationalizing industries and imposing ever growing and restrictive regulations on private companies. The rising tide of socialism threatened to become a tidal wave. Among superpowers, the Communist Soviet Union appeared to be gaining in international prestige and influence, while the capitalist U.S. seemed to be declining. Racked by oil crises, recession and an inflationary fever that soared to double digits, the free-enterprise system faced a doubtful, some said downright perilous, future...
...strategy coincided with the creation of a broader- based leadership, as the previously all-black national executive committee expanded its membership to 30 when, for the first time ever, it elected a white, two Indians and two mixed-race coloreds. In recent months the movement's leaders in Lusaka have also received a steady succession of visitors from South Africa, including churchmen, opposition politicians and businessmen...
...first, as the two jet fighters came screaming over the Zambian capital of Lusaka, most townspeople paid little attention, assuming them to be air force planes on some kind of training maneuver. But then a series of sharp explosions shook the city, and Zambians suddenly realized that the black-white confrontation in southern Africa had taken a new and dangerous turn...
Despite the widespread unrest, the Botha government's motive in staging last week's attacks was unclear. Even as the raiding parties were carrying out their missions, a Commonwealth negotiating team arrived in Cape Town following talks with A.N.C. leaders in Lusaka. They were trying to set up a negotiating link between Pretoria and the A.N.C. Though the Commonwealth team's leaders, onetime Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and former Nigerian Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo, were reluctant to admit it, their mission had been all but destroyed by the cross-border raids. Criticism was worldwide. The Reagan Administration expressed...
...these reports are true, Botha's ploy can be said to have worked. In Lusaka, the exiled A.N.C. leader Oliver Tambo, who has been running the organization ever since his friend Mandela went to prison in the early 1960s, called on South African blacks to give their full support to a national strike on June 16, the tenth anniversary of the uprising in Soweto. Declared Tambo: "Let every university and school be emptied of its youth. Let every mine, factory, farm and white home be without labor. Let every shop close its doors." With emotions running so high on both...