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Welcome banners bedecked Lusaka's postage-stamp airport, and 2,000 jubilant Africans pressed against its wire fence, their faces daubed festively with red ink, and frantically waving ceremonial palm fronds. Out of the Dakota transport stepped a shock-haired, anthracite-black man in a natty suit. To cheers of "Ken, our Zambia boy!" he unfurled a banner that proclaimed: REPUBLIC DAY, OCTOBER 24. Then he said: "I told you before we left we were going to collect a republic. We have brought it back...
...effort to woo Africans away from Northern Rhodesia's black nationalist parties, Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky's followers recently set up a political organization called "Build a Nation." The nationalists got sore when the organization's headquarters in Lusaka displayed pictures of both white and black political leaders, showing fiery, black Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda alongside white supremacists and Uncle Toms. To protest, 15 African girls pranced into the Build a Nation office last week. When the manager refused to remove Kaunda's picture, off came their clothes. Buff naked, the strippers danced about...
...approached for Maudling's proposals to be introduced in the House of Commons, the Rhodesians waited grimly to hear the details. From his headquarters in Lusaka, Kaunda ordered his black followers to lay in stocks of food for a general strike should the draft prove unsatisfactory. Sir Roy fumed that he would "go the whole hog"-a hint of armed force-if Britain's terms appeared to endanger what he regards as his personal domain. Said he: "The federation is mine." When the news finally arrived, Sir Roy exploded. "This is not good enough." he roared, ordering...
Last week Williams wound up a 30,000-mile swing through 13 African countries. In Nyasaland. he officially received the title of honorary white chief; in the Ivory Coast he picked up a carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport, Williams was going through the farewell ceremonies with Governor Sir Evelyn Hone, when a burly white man lumbered out of the shadows of the airport administration building. Lunging at Williams, he seized a lapel, spun him around, and let fly with a punch. The blow glanced off Soapy...
...number of the swing seats, endorsed the scheme. Kaunda and his fellow nationalists might eventually cooperate, on the theory that the new constitution is at least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest. An extremist white mob met in a Lusaka movie house, angrily blamed its troubles on the United States Information Service, which had been 'Inflaming Africans." Warned Welensky...