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...What Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere lacks in toughness he makes up for in statesmanlike skill. Last week, with scarcely a twitch of his toothbrush mustache, Nyerere swallowed - whole - the People's Republic of Zanzibar...
...that Zanzibar, since its savage coup last January against the old Arab ruling crowd, was sliding into the Communist camp. Early last month, Nyerere sent Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona winging across the 23-mile channel that separates the two countries with an ultimatum: unless Zanzibar halted its leftward slither, Tanganyika would dissociate itself from Zanzibar and withdraw the 300 field policemen who have been on loan there since the coup to keep order...
...with automatic rifles who take orders from Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, and it is "Babu" who wants Moderate Karume's job. Alarmed, Karume flew to Dar es Salaam to plead with Nyerere, who listened sympathetically and offered a counter proposal: let Zanzibar immediately merge with Tanganyika...
...money," Harp said, "we will have to reduce the number of people who go. This will leave a couple of jobs in Tanganyika unfilled...
Undergraduates are selected for the project by those who have just returned from a year in Tanganyika. Those selected are responsible for raising the money, and obtain their jobs on their own through the students who are now working in Africa...