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Under the flame trees that line Dar es Salaam's breezy waterfront esplanade, the 45th Royal Marine Commando band tootled a medley of marches. Carefree Tanganyikans of all races sauntered under sunny skies, staring at the great British warships at anchor outside Dar's tidy harbor or simply listening to the music. But the holiday mood was superficial. All through East Africa, worried government leaders were busy patching the flimsy fabric of their infant nations, torn by a week of armed mutiny and racial violence...
Easing the Sting. Even as British helicopters fluttered over the bush back of Dar es Salaam, rounding up the last of Tanganyika's mutineers, Julius Nyerere was taking steps to ease the sting of shame his cry for assistance had caused. He called for a meeting of 34 African foreign and defense ministers in Dar es Salaam this week to consider "the implications for African unity and our nonalignment policies of the happenings in East Africa." A longtime booster of East African federation, Nyerere hopes to lay the groundwork for a mutual defense agreement that would eliminate the need...
Anarchy's Victory. The first mutiny erupted in Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam, and gunfire rattled through that humid "Haven of Peace" for the first time since German gunboats held target practice there during World War I, when Tanganyika was part of German East Africa. Before it died away, at least 20 Tanganyikans were dead, whole blocks of the Arab and Indian quarters lay in ruins, and President Julius Nyerere's government-once considered East Africa's most stable-had been seriously discountenanced. The mutiny was made possible by Nyerere's decision...
...troops, this sounded as if Nyerere was welshing on his promise to send British officers home later this year and put black officers in charge. They also wanted their basic pay increased from $14.84 a month to $36.40-roughly the equivalent of what dockworkers were making in Dar es Salaam...
Rocketing Rout. With the Uganda and Kenya rebellions quelled for the moment, only Tanganyika's Nyerere remained in any danger from his own army. That situation was rectified at week's end when, at Nyerere's request, the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Centaur in Dar es Salaam harbor went into action...