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...This is all-out war, not cricket. Chisiza and his gangsters must be captured dead or alive." --President Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi...
...month ago a band of forty rebels set out for the city of Blantyre in Malawi to assassinate President Banda. What has happened to them is, perhaps, of less importance than the growing movement of which they were part--a movement which could land the tiny country of Malawi in serious trouble...
Dwarfed by racist neighbors on one side and nationalistic independent states on the other, Malawi lies in the extreme Southern end of the Great Rift Valley which stretches North and South almost the entire length of the continent. As a land-locked nation, it must depend on its good relations with surrounding states to insure overland trans-shipment to the sea. There-in lies Malawi's greatest problem, and President Banda's response to such dependence has embroiled a formerly little-known country in a major struggle...
...Malawi has announced that it plans to open diplomatic relations with South Africa. A more ill-timed disclosure would be hard to imagine, as it coincided with the opening of the Organization of African Unity Conference in Kinshasa, Congo...
Banda's actions might well have resulted in the usual speeches and counter-attacks in the press, and little more, for recently Malawi has been quietly pursuing a course of cooperation with Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, and Mozambique, all of whom have avowedly racist governments. And, in fact, the announcement itself was greeted with surprisingly little reaction publicly. But it did not go unnoticed. Other African states may have been reluctant to criticize openly a former freedom fighter in his own right, who without bloodshed brought his country to independence. But privately they seem to have written off Malawi...