Word: zambia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million project, will be completed in June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper belt of landlocked Zambia. It will stand as one more monument to the widely varied skills of San Francisco's Bechtel Corp., the largest engineering and construction firm in the world...
Driven to Tears. More than three years ago, when Zambia won independence from Britain, Kaunda promised that each of his people would have an egg and a pint of milk a day by 1970. It was a modest enough goal. Zambia, moreover, was a nation of abundant resources, including a lot of fertile land and much of the world's copper, co-salt, lead and zinc. But political forces lave conspired to block progress toward Kaunda's goal, and he has become so frustrated by the obstacles that at times he is driven to public tears...
...country is a crossroads of racial bitterness. Black-nationalist guerrillas use it as a base for raids on the neighboring white supremacist regimes in Rhodesia and Southwest Africa. In turn, white agents infiltrate the country to spy on them. Zambia's 3,800,000 blacks resent the white minority of about 65,000, many of whom are Rhodesian and South African citizens who still hold the managerial jobs...
...much of Zambia's small business...
...Zambia's economy was stricken by Kaunda's decision two years ago to go along with United Nations sanctions against the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia, from which Zambia bought almost all of its imports. The government thereupon had to impose rationing, buy its goods in more expensive markets and ship by air and truck routes the bulk of the copper that once moved cheaply over Rhodesia's railroad to ports in Mozambique. As a result, Kaunda has had to curtail his $1.2 billion four-year development plan. Because of high black unemployment, average income is only...