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...army was gone-dissolved by burly President Abeid Karume, who had tired of Okello's manic ravings. No sooner had the field marshal arrived than Karume sent him winging back to the mainland. There, Okello called a press conference on the veranda of Tanganyika's Dares Salaam Club, sadly explained that he had been kicked out of Zanzibar because some people, "four or five" at least, felt he carried the seeds of death. "Wherever I go there will be bloodshed," he mourned. But the old elan returned when he was asked how many had died in the coup...
...aspirations that accompanied African independence were great indeed and, to an extent, some of them have been realized. From Dakar to Dar es Salaam, gleaming office buildings rise where rust-roofed shantytowns once stood. Hydroelectric dams now hum where only the crocodile hunter passed ten years ago. Africans who a short time ago ran drugstores or taught elementary school debate eloquently with their former colonial rulers in the United Nations, or struggle manfully with the problems of nonalignment in a world increasingly complicated by shifts of temperature in the cold...
...seemed to have communicated itself to his people, largely through his motto, "Uhuru na kazi"-"Independence and work." Then, in a sudden, senseless instant, Nyerere's carefully woven fabric of stability ripped down the middle. His army rose against him; riots exploded in the streets of Dar es Salaam. Only by calling in British troops did Nyerere survive. When the smoke cleared, a frightening question remained: If Julius Nyerere could be shaken to the verge of destruction, who in all Africa was safe...
...leader in African unity, permits his capital to be used as headquarters for the O.A.U.'s Liberation Committee, whose aim is to crack the white grip on southern Africa. This is one of the few issues around which all black Africans can rally. Dar es Salaam (Arabic for "Haven of Peace") further belies its name by serving as the home base for at least seven African insurgent parties dedicated to eradicating colonialism and apartheid from the south. Largest is the Mozambican Liberation Front-Frelimo-which maintains a military training camp 40 miles northwest of Dar, where some 500 young...
...matter minutes, Nyerere neatly converted the revolt from an internal to a pan-African affair. He also pointed out that the African Liberation movements, with headquarters in Dar es Salaam, might be damaged by the existence of just such a state of affairs in Tanganyika, and that this was also "the concern of the whole of Africa...