Word: tanzania
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Most of the official and unofficial foreign observers, including British Election Commissioner Sir John Boynton, concluded that the elections had been surprisingly free and fair. That judgment was shared by the Presidents of the so-called frontline African states (Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Angola, Tanzania), who gave the guerrillas crucial support during the war. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere had earlier suggested that the British had rigged the vote in favor of Muzorewa. Celebrating Mugabe's victory with a champagne toast, Nyerere declared: "This is not the first time I have been proved wrong...
...people with whom I and our AID mission could work with a clear conscience in ways which might strengthen the prospects for democratic institutions while improving the living level of the poor. In like manner, HIID's list of clients includes such countries as Indonesia, Bolivia, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania. None should suffer under the illusion that these are democracies as we know democracy. One has only to read the State Department's human rights reports to recognize that even Nyrere's Tanzania has a one-party system with but limited tolerance for dissenters, some of whom are in jail...
...most bizarre diplomatic mission in recent U.S. history. Two weeks ago, Jimmy Carter asked former Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali to undertake a five-nation African tour (Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal) as his special representative to seek support for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games. Ali, who was traveling in India, accepted the assignment. By the time he had spent an hour on African soil, however, he was floundering like a Golden Gloves novice against a ring-wise...
Arriving in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ali immediately demonstrated that he had not been well briefed for his mission. He was apparently unaware that the Soviet Union had been backing revolutionary liberation movements on the continent. Why, some local reporters also demanded, should Africa boycott the Moscow Olympics when four years ago the U.S. had opposed an African Olympic boycott called to protest New Zealand's sporting links with South Africa? Ali fumbled for an answer and found none...
December 16: The Brown-Kennedy-Connally coalition demands return of Ronstadt and a guarantee of secure borders. American embassies seized in United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Quebec, Mongolia, Jamiaca, Pitcairn Island and Houston. Rizzo says, "I'm not kidding...