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...accord, having reached my 92nd year. I credit my vitality to this service, exercising mind and body. I played squash till I was 73 and swam till I was 87, but have now replaced violent exercise by taking two walks a day. Incidentally, both President Kaunda of Zambia and the Queen of England honored me for my service in Zambia. So I can recommend that the elderly carry on with their work as long as health and a demand for their services will allow them...
...will rally to him if it appears that he is sincere in seeking a negotiated settlement, while the black nationalist spokesmen are not. Aware of Smith's strategy, some black African leaders have warned the four nationalists in Geneva not to appear intransigent. Last week the Times of Zambia editorially criticized the nationalists for refusing to accept a transition. Warned the paper: "It is better to wait longer if necessary. Insistence shows lack of political acumen and competence...
...vocabulary, and you should not seek to put it there. Before we go any further with this meeting, I want you to withdraw that remark." Mudzi backed off, and there were no hard feelings, especially after Richard learned that Mudzi had just been released from prison in Zambia, where he had been held since March 1975 without trial on suspicion of murdering another black leader. "I think it cleared the air," Richard told TIME...
...Minerals,'" Pogrund says, "that means copper. Kaunda [Kenneth D. Kaunda, the president of Zambia, which shares the same rail line] depends on copper for his survival. The railway through Angola was destroyed during the war; he has to send the copper through South Africa. He may be distressed that his black brothers are being discriminated against, but he'll strike a deal with Vorster...
...only trouble was that the parties involved-the white Rhodesians, the black Rhodesians, the five "frontline" Presidents of Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and Angola-had sharply differing ideas of what the conference was supposed to accomplish. "Rowlands and Schaufele seemed to be trying not to offend or differ with anyone," said a Western diplomat in Tanzania. "Their idea seems to be to get a conference going, and then hope that things will work out simply because everyone is in one room...