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Last week the consumer nations' fears faded. The delegates of the producing countries listened, argued, split hairs, stood attentively at interminable cocktail parties and even squeezed in a side trip to gape at Victoria Falls and float down the Zambezi River looking for elephants. But the first-of-its-kind conference ended with only an innocuous agreement to coordinate research and information policies. For that, the four countries set up an Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries, to be based in Paris. Its first move will be to open an information bureau. "Consumers must not worry," said mustachioed Chilean...
...rest of black Africa is concerned, the trade pact only proved that Banda is a "traitor to his race." In the past few weeks, he has been condemned and cursed from the Zambezi to the Niger and beyond, and the Organization of African Unity has even threatened to throw out Malawi as long as he is there. Banda is unimpressed. Last week he went before his Parlia ment to answer his critics with a quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats...
...throughout the game parks of East Africa. Protected by the rigid enforcement of poaching laws and strict limits on trophy hunters, the population of big game has exploded beyond all bounds. There are now 20,000 elephants in Tsavo alone, and another 20,000 have been counted in the Zambezi River Valley between Zambia and Rhodesia. In Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, the pachyderms are packed in at a density of between five and 40 elephants per square mile...
...problem, and as a result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in their search for edible shrubbery. Parts of the Zambezi Valley, according to one conservationist, "look as though an atom bomb had exploded in the area...
Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, another moderate, was also displaying disturbing signs of irritation. For a month, he had been asking Britain to send troops across into Rhodesia to "protect" the Kariba power station, on the southern side of the Zambezi. Britain refused. Last week Kaunda announced that he would send his next request, if necessary, to Moscow...