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...trouble with Smith's plan is that black Africa will not buy it. Across the Zambezi River in Lusaka, TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood talked with two of the black leaders most concerned with achieving a Rhodesian settlement: Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's most respected leaders, and Joshua Nkomo, perhaps the best known of the Rhodesian nationalists and co-leader (with Robert Mugabe) of the Patriotic Front...
...Djibouti, Africa's 50th independent state. The most notable visitor present at the celebrations: President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing, who was scheduled to fly in from Paris for a few hours to offer congratulations. The newborn republic faces a most uncertain future. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs visited Djibouti and cabled this report...
...Uganda announced that Amin would attend a celebration in the country's northwestern region; no further mention of the festivities was made in following days. The anti-Amin Kenya press reported that Amin had been ambushed by an assassination squad somewhere between Kampala and Entebbe. According to one Nairobi paper, the attempted coup was engineered by a Ugandan army major, but Amin had been tipped off and escaped with minor wounds. The alleged coup leaders were then said to have fled to Kenya...
...after 13 Ugandan military officers and civil servants sought asylum in Kenya, claiming that their lives were threatened by Amin's security forces. Soon reports had "hundreds" of innocent Ugandan refugees fleeing the murderous wrath of Big Daddy's goon squads-a not uncommon occurrence in Uganda. Nairobi's Daily-Nation reported that Amin was being treated for his wounds in "a friendly country, probably Libya...
...developmental journalism, a number of news organizations are beginning to take the Third World more seriously. The Washington Post has roughly doubled its force of part-time correspondents, or stringers, in the developing countries in the past five years to 14. CBS this year opened an African bureau in Nairobi, and ABC will open one in Johannesburg next week. In addition, the World Press Freedom Association, a group of Western news organizations and professional societies, is committed to raising $1 million to "assist the development of Third World news gathering...