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Through one of her senior deacons, the prophetess notified Charles Stacey, a white attorney practicing in Ndola, that she was ready to give herself up -if the government guaranteed her fair treatment. Delighted, Stacey immediately won Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda's consent. One afternoon last week, in a remote mud-hut hideout in the north, Alice Lenshina said farewell to 200 hymn-singing tribesmen, climbed into a Land Rover, and with Stacey at her side, was driven off to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Rhodesia: You Sons of God, Listen | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...more than the late Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was a man of feeling, a poet, who wrote of a small sculpture that he kept in his office: "Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?" The question was answered at Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, on Sept. 18, 1961, when his airplane crashed during a tour of the chaotic Congo. The sculpture was by Barbara Hepworth, 61, Britain's top woman artist. Last week another Hepworth bronze appeared at the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: In Abstract Memoriam | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...official exchange rate of 50 to $1 ) in a single swipe. Some 4,000 gold coins valued at $280,000 were smuggled to Geneva for sale by a European syndicate. There was evidence that the bank had transferred 1 billion francs to a branch 150 miles away in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, to buy arms and pay mercenaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Bare Cupboard | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

Ever since Dag Hammarskjold's DC-6 crashed and burned in the forest near Ndola. Northern Rhodesia, eight months ago, the United Nations has been trying to determine whether it was an accident or sabotage. Last week, after hearing dozens of witnesses in five cities, an investigating commission issued its final verdict: Cause unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Still a Mystery | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Thus Dag Hammarskjold was buried, with ceremony usually accorded to Swedish kings, at Uppsala, the city where he grew up and studied. It had been a long way home: 5,000 miles from Ndola. the small Rhodesian town where the Secretary-General had been bound to negotiate peace in Katanga. When the body arrived in Stockholm aboard an American DC-yC, 250,000 mourners gathered for a torchlight procession. At Uppsala the closed casket, nearly buried in flowers, was placed in the 13th century Lutheran cathedral, where 15,000 townfolk came to say their farewells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Royal Funeral | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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