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...huts were burned to force peasants into unfinished villages with roofless homes and no running water. So far Nyerere, who is still respectfully called Mwalimu (Swahili for teacher), has not been widely blamed for the bungling. But discontent is deepening. Signs have appeared on the walls of Dar es Salaam: MWALIMU, IF YOU ARE TIRED OF RUNNING THE COUNTRY, LET SOMEONE ELSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANZANIA: Ujamaa's Bitter Harvest | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...volumes which mainly add up to a series of short answers-tomes like the Guinness Book of World Records or the Baseball Encyclopedia. Seven hundred twenty-three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the replies such works elicit from the reader. The rest is merely a salaam to accuracy and arcana. Joining the shelf of unique reference books is another first: the first Book of Firsts by Patrick Robertson. A British civil servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity. Not for him the Joe Namaths, Henry Kissingers or Valerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Numero Uno | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...rich colony. Gomes also offered the liberation fighters a cease-fire until self-determination can be negotiated. The guerrillas' response was immediate: "We refuse to be considered as black Portuguese," said Georges Paulo Texeira, spokesman for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the journal of Frelimo (the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), editorialized: "The only language [Lisbon] understands is the language of force." The guerrillas obviously agreed. They killed nine persons last week in Mozambique, including an elderly white man whom they dragged from his farmhouse, and mined a train. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Hangover Sets In | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Senate, from Dar es Salaam to New Delhi. The brouhaha stems from U.S. plans to upgrade a small naval and communications station on the island into a $55 million base to support U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Atoll Trouble | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...long and colorful history of railroading, few tracks have been laid any faster than those of the Tanzam Railway, which is currently moving southwestward from the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam to the copper belt of Zambia at the extraordinary rate of three miles a day. The 1,162-mile line, financed with the help of a $402 million interest-free loan from China, is being built by 15,000 Chinese, laboring alongside 35,000 Zambians and Tanzanians. The hardest part of the job - 21 tunnels, 200 bridges and some 1,000 culverts in Tanzania - has already been completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAMBIA: Kaunda in Command | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

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