Word: sisal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forces do not control large areas of the countryside as the Angolan rebels did when revolution broke out in that Portuguese colony in 1961. But from bases across the Ruvuma River in Tanzania, Mozambique's northern neighbor, African "freedom fighters" have spread across the country, attacking isolated tea and sisal plantations, ambushing search parties sent into the tropical bush country to surprise them, and always slipping away under the cover of darkness to reappear as peasant farmers in some remote village...
Speculation & Sisal. Lonrho now controls assets worth more than $56 million, employs 30,000 Africans and 2,000 whites in countries that range the political and racial spectrum from apartheid South Africa to black nationalist Zambia. Its $42 million in annual sales comes from a vast array of enterprises: mining projects and ranching in Rhodesia, land speculation in Swaziland, forestry and the new pipeline in Mozambique, sugar and tea plantations in Malawi, coal mining in South Africa, sisal plantations in Tanzania and breweries, newspapers and prospecting rights in Zambia. Lonrho is also planning an $11 million fertilizer plant in Rhodesia...
Suited for Freedom. Tanganyika came to independence in 1961 no better off economically than any other African nation. Though huge (362,688 sq. mi.) and harshly beautiful, the country was not wealthy. Average income was $55 a year, and fully half of its exports were in three crops: sisal, cotton and coffee. Tanganyika's mineral wealth was scanty, consisting of some gold and the Williamson diamond mine near Lake Victoria in the north. With its game-thick Serengeti Plains aswarm with trophy heads, and soaring Mount Kilimanjaro to attract all the Hemingway buffs, it had tourist potential...
...Exports: Sisal, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $55. U.S. aid (1961): $4,300,000. Less than one-third of vast land is usable. Disease is rampant. Government is pro-Western, hopes for federation with Kenya and Uganda when they win independence...
Exports: Coffee, sisal, meat. Per capita income: $96. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Communist infiltration may increase with independence, but U.S. has won high esteem through famine relief. Main problems: replacing 4,000 European civil servants; settling Africans on land, healing tribal schisms...