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Some major arms importers are exporting as well. India, for example, sells rifles to Tanzania, while Jordan recently exported aging British-made tanks to South Africa (which were quaintly listed on the shipping manifests as "earthmoving tractors"). Argentina has been developing its defense industry during the past decade by manufacturing arms under license; for example, it has built more than 100 of the French AMX-13 tanks. The Argentines are currently trying to interest South Africa and Bolivia in the Pucara, an Argentine-designed counterinsurgency plane made with French, British, Swiss and Belgian components...
...ujamaa (cooperative) villages on a more or less voluntary basis. But last year no fewer than 3 million people were moved-some willingly, some by coercion-from their own admittedly inefficient individual plots to communal villages. The result is that farm production has fallen at a time when Tanzania desperately needs increased agricultural output...
...failing crops, worldwide inflation and soaring petroleum costs. Because the government paid such low prices for basic agricultural commodities, farmers last year smuggled more than $50 million worth of sisal, cattle, cotton, cashew nuts and corn across the border into neighboring Kenya, where prices were higher, thereby depriving Tanzania of vital foreign exchange. The country's hard currency reserves, in fact, have fallen from over $100 million a year ago to only $11 million at present...
With the government unable to maintain subsidies, prices on basic foodstuffs have jumped 80%, and inflation is rampant. Although Tanzania has millions of acres of potentially arable land, the inefficiency of the collectivized agricultural system-as well as the prevalence of drought and smuggling-made it necessary for the country to import 40% of its food last year. Tanzania has gone begging on the world market for food aid, but with modest success. The U.S. is providing 20,000 tons of grain as a grant and 40,000 more on easy credit, although it turned down a Tanzanian request...
...says grimly. Despite opposition from the World Bank and other foreign sources of financial aid, Nyerere has not cut back on one expensive pet project-moving the country's capital from Dar es Salaam to a more central location near Dodoma, 250 miles to the west in Tanzania's dusty hinterland. Estimated cost of the development: at least $500 million...