Word: tanganyika
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After the recent coup in Zanzibar, TIME's East Africa Correspondent Bill Smith tried in vain to get to the scene by plane, finally chartered a dhow to take him the 23 miles from Tanganyika to the embattled island. On arrival, Smith had barely begun to interview a U.S. official when Zanzibar police seized his notes and placed him and several other Western journalists under detention. The charges included sending "biased" stories-although Reporter Smith had not yet cabled a word. After almost 24 hours and some browbeating, he was released and placed aboard a British vessel...
...when the Belgians staged an election in which the 1,500,000 Bahutu wrenched control from their longtime feudal masters, who numbered only about 250,000. The Bahutu wreaked a savage reprisal; after Rwanda won its independence in July 1962, some 86,000 Watutsi streamed into neighboring Tanganyika, Uganda, Burundi and the Congo's Kivu Province...
...Watutsi families who never left the country were massacred. Children were impaled, the forearms of Watutsi men were cut off, and the men sent into the jungle to die. Hundreds more were tossed into the Ruzizi River, which carried maimed bodies 125 miles until they bobbed up in Lake Tanganyika...
Phillips Brooks House has received word that all Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers in Tanganyika are safe, and that the situation there is calm. Seven teachers associated with PBH's Project Tanganyika are currently working in private schools near Dar es Salaam, the capital city...
...revolt broke out Monday among members of the First Battallon of the Tanganyika Rifles, and quickly spread to the civilian population. The army objected to low pay and to the detention of British officers in positions of command...