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...across the Congo River, possibly to secret Simba units in Bolobo -only 180 miles upriver from Leopoldville. Other shipments arrived by sea at Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam, were sent in sealed boxcars to the lake port of Kigoma, then were shipped either directly across Lake Tanganyika to the rebel-held area of the Congo around Baraka or through the small kingdom of Burundi...
Imperfect Merger. Eight months ago. President Nyerere signed the articles of confederation that united his mainland nation of Tanganyika with the tiny, troublesome offshore island state of Zanzibar. At the time, Zanzibar had just gone through a far-left coup against the ruling Arab minority. African Leader Abeid Karume had been installed as President, and his regime seemed about to slide under Peking domination. The union forestalled that, and Karume reluctantly agreed to serve under Nyerere as a mere Vice President of the newly formed nation known as Tanzania. Last week, as Nyerere paid his first state visit...
...Project Tanganyika is looking for a new name. For the first time in the Project's five-year history, the Phillips Brooks House teaching program plans to place some of its teachers outside of East Africa. They will go to the newly-independent country of Zambia...
Chosen for Project Tanganyika 1965 were two law students, a graduate student in education, four Radcliffe, and five Harvard undergraduates. They are: Ford T. Johnson, Jr. 1L, Harry E. Miller 3L, Fredric R. Branfman 1GSE, Karen E. Fields '66, Elise Forbes '65, Jennifer Leaning '67, Mary R. Yarwood '65, Lee S. Hyde '65, Stephen A. Most '65, Christopher St. John '66, Alan H. Venable '66, and David A. Wendt...
Tanganzanziyikabar? Tangibar? Instead, the newlyweds settled for the grandly forgettable title of United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, or URTZ, as it soon became known to U.S. African hands. Last week, to the delight of map-makers and nation-namers the world over, the United Republic's President, Julius Nyerere, announced on second thought that the amalgamated nation's official name will be Tanzania...