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Progress Reports. In the meantime, Kissinger moved quickly to keep black African leaders informed. At Lusaka he saw Kenneth Kaunda, then Julius Nyerere in Dar es Salaam. A week earlier, the Tanzanian had been distinctly pessimistic about the Kissinger mission, at least in public. This time Nyerere was in a buoyant mood, speaking with far greater candor about the substance of the proposals put to Smith than anyone else had done all week. Next, Kissinger flew to Kinshasa to brief Zaïre's flamboyant President Mobutu Sese Seko, then on to Nairobi to see Kenya's venerable...
Kissinger's shuttle got off to an inauspicious beginning last week when he landed at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. On arrival, he found the Tanzanian government less receptive to his mission than he had hoped. Student demonstrators, obviously acting with government acquiescence, greeted the Secretary with signs branding him a "cynical murderer." Later, after five hours of talks, President Nyerere told newsmen that he felt "even less hopeful" about Namibia than he had been before. But at the very least, Nyerere remarked, the mission would clarify U.S. views on southern Africa. In that sense, he added, "a shuttle...
...meeting until the night before he left for Zurich, was worried that the African leaders would reject his negotiating offer before he had a chance to discuss it with them. Later he told newsmen that he had been invited to visit Dar es Salaam on his forthcoming shuttle. A Tanzanian spokesman put it somewhat differently: "He asked to come, and we said, 'All right, come along.' " Despite his minor gaffe, Kissinger will obviously be welcome in Tanzania, as well as Zambia, the most important stops on his current trip. From there, he will go to South Africa...
Walker, 24, whose training was as punishing if not as puritan as Bayi's, had been greatly relieved to learn of the Tanzanian's rigorous schedule. It dispelled the intimidating notion popular among Bayi's competitors-that he had tapped some magical source of stamina in the upcountry of Africa that the world would never share. Unlike Bayi-who seems to glide effortlessly over the track with a feathery gait, his delicate, slender features contorted only by an occasional smile-Walker runs a noisy, grimacing race, punctuated by grunts and the thud of heavy footfalls. Part...
Walker seemed more disturbed, or perhaps only more candid, than Bayi about the Tanzanian decision. "We're sportsmen," he fumed last weekend. "It's bloody crazy to make us into politicians." Then, trying to take the edge off his disappointment, he added: "The 1,500 will still be a good race. There are other good 1,500 men around." Kenya's Mike Boit, Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan and the United States' Rick Wohlhuter are indeed good 1,500 men, athletes who in any other race would rarely suffer the tag of also-rans...