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...themselves. By early March Nyerere had apparently become fed up with the continued political infighting. He was also annoyed that Binaisa's aides put all the blame on his troops for a series of violent clashes between the Tanzanians and Ugandan villagers. He summoned Binaisa to Dar es Salaam and told him bluntly that Tanzania would withdraw half of its troops by the end of the month and the remainder before December. Binaisa is unsure about the loyalty of the new Ugandan army, which placed its first 5,700 troops on active duty last week, and is worried...
Arriving in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ali immediately demonstrated that he had not been well briefed for his mission. He was apparently unaware that the Soviet Union had been backing revolutionary liberation movements on the continent. Why, some local reporters also demanded, should Africa boycott the Moscow Olympics when four years ago the U.S. had opposed an African Olympic boycott called to protest New Zealand's sporting links with South Africa? Ali fumbled for an answer and found none...
...Dacca, Bangladesh, eager buyers crowd around empty tanks to wait for deliveries of scarce and costly kerosene. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzanians line up for hours for deliveries of sugar and other basic necessities that are hopelessly delayed, partly because there is little gasoline for trucks. Gas is rationed; service stations are closed three days a week; and President Julius Nyerere urges his Cabinet members to ride bicycles to work. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian cab drivers crowd the streets and snarl traffic during a three-day strike to protest a 58% rise in gasoline prices. Meanwhile, riots break...
...leaders were shocked by Carrington's strong-handed tactics and feared that the success of the talks was being "jeopardized" by a mere technicality. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, a key sponsor of the Lancaster House talks, invited the other front-line Presidents to an emergency summit at Dares Salaam to seek a way out of the apparent impasse. The meeting fully supported the guerrillas on the land question and made a conciliatory plea for both sides to "move on to the next crucial stage...
...apartheid; many of the delicacies served at the Commonwealth banquets also came from there. For Zambia, the Tazara Railway, built by the Chinese to open up a land link from Zambia through Tanzania to the Indian Ocean, is almost a writeoff. The railway works, but the port of Bares Salaam cannot cope with the tonnage of copper that Zambia would like to export by that route. The result is that to export its copper Zambia has been paying heavy transport and port costs to Tanzania. At one point, Zambia claimed that 70,000 tons of copper were waiting for shipment...