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Progress Reports. In the meantime, Kissinger moved quickly to keep black African leaders informed. At Lusaka he saw Kenneth Kaunda, then Julius Nyerere in Dar es Salaam. A week earlier, the Tanzanian had been distinctly pessimistic about the Kissinger mission, at least in public. This time Nyerere was in a buoyant mood, speaking with far greater candor about the substance of the proposals put to Smith than anyone else had done all week. Next, Kissinger flew to Kinshasa to brief Zaïre's flamboyant President Mobutu Sese Seko, then on to Nairobi to see Kenya's venerable...
...part, wants to avoid an all-out racial war in Rhodesia, which might force South African military intervention to prevent the slaughter of the country's 278,000 whites. The Secretary recognizes the unique role that Vorster and his people can still play on the continent: in his Lusaka speech last April, he told a predominantly black audience that white South Africans "are not colonialists" and that "historically they are African people." At the Bavarian summit, Kissinger will urge Vorster to surrender jurisdiction over Namibia and proclaim a timetable, "acceptable to the world community," for greater self-determination...
...Russians and the Cubans can't go into Zimbabwe and other countries. But Africans would applaud them if they walked in tomorrow. It doesn't matter what the color of their skin is. We were pleasantly surprised to see [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger in his Lusaka speech taking a position for the liberation of southern Africa. In that area there has never been a position stated by the Americans...
...pitfalls and pratfalls, Kissinger had come to Africa to announce, for the first time, a coherent and far-reaching American policy in the region. In a major policy speech, which he delivered in Lusaka, following a series of friendly talks with Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Kissinger forcefully aligned the U.S. with the proponents of black majority rule and against the white regimes of southern Africa. The U.S., he said, is "wholly committed to help bring about a rapid, just and African solution" in Rhodesia (which Kissinger pointedly referred...
...role in helping to achieve majority rule in southern Africa. As one Kissinger aide said: "It's the first time in a long time that we are doing the moral thing." The reaction in black Africa was cautiously favorable. Tanzania's government-controlled Daily News saw the Lusaka speech as a "psychological boost"; Zambian President Kaunda praised it as "an important turning point...