Word: zambia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Policy of Kith & Kin. The expulsion order was suggested by Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, who was impatient for stronger British action against Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia. Addressing 20,000 followers at a youth rally in Lusaka, Kaunda attacked Wilson for his "kith and kin" policy on Rhodesia and threatened to propose Britain's expulsion at the next Commonwealth meeting unless Smith's gov ernment has been toppled by then. "Our stand on the rebels is final," Kaunda stressed. ";We refuse to be part and parcel of British treachery...
...further leverage on Wilson, Kaunda decided to withhold all hardcurrency payments to Rhodesia, due as its share of the jointly owned and operated railway that is Zambia's lifeline for copper exports and coal and consumer-goods imports. By jeopardizing his own economy, Kaunda hopes to put Wilson over a barrel and force him into more decisive action. To calm Kaunda down, last week Wilson sent Judith Hart, the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, to Lusaka. When she arrived, only two minor protocol officers were waiting to meet her, and toward week...
...enter a new phase last week. Smith's white security forces, led by helicopters, trapped a small band of guerrillas in the hills 85 miles northwest of Salisbury. Seven of the guerrillas were killed. Smith's government charged that they had all crossed the border from Zambia the week before. What ever their point of origin, the significance of the encounter was clear. For the first time since Smith seized inde pendence last November, Rhodesia's blacks were beginning to fight...
...returning to Harvard, almost half of V.T.A.'s participants have written theses dealing with Africa or have gone away to graduate school in African Studies. This year, one former member is going to the Ivory Coast as a geologist, another is in Zambia as an educational evaluator, a third is working with African students...
...Nyerere, who helped funnel arms to the Simba rebels. Since Tanzania is currently a base for the enemies of Malawi's Premier Kamuzu Banda, the crotchety autocrat stayed away from the Nairobi summit, although he unbent enough to send his Commerce Minister. Of the lot, only Kenyatta and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda were on good terms with all hands...