Word: zambian
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...other side. Angola, a Portuguese colony, and Zambia, an independent nation that harbors anti-Portuguese guerrillas, are virtually at war. The two soldiers were curious about the invitation from the other side. They handed their weapons to a comrade and strolled across the border to chat amicably with a Zambian immigration officer. To their chagrin, they found themselves arrested-and sentenced by an African magistrate in a lower court to a fine of $2,800 or two years in prison for entering Zambia illegally...
...Nkumbula was rousted out of bed in Lusaka before dawn one morning while police searched his house for weapons. The ostensible reason was that thugs from Nkumbula's party rather than foreign intruders had been responsible for a series of raids along the Angola border in which 14 Zambian villages were burned. On television and in stump speeches, Kaunda in velvety tones accused his old mentor of having become "a misguided political adventurer...
...this shabby capital knows about it, but few will talk. The unmarked planes, however, are there for all to see: four DC-4s, three DC-3s and a single Constellation, parked on the palm-lined seaside tarmac. Patient research shows that the aircraft have varied registration-French, German, Belgian, Zambian, Biafran and Gabonese. Each afternoon, three or four planes taxi to the nearby military airfield for loading, then take off for Biafra at 6 p.m. sharp. They return around midnight, after the 900-mile round trip. Just as predictable as the flights is the black Citroen, owned by the French...
U.N.I.P. officials have decided that brief hemlines are "immoral, un-Zambian" and "sex-ridden flaunted fripperies" of the white world. Determined to do away with such dangers to their native culture, young U.N.I.P. militants and grim, middle-aged female vigilantes armed with straight razors have stationed themselves as "morality guards" in public places. They stand ready to slash stitches and drop offending hems at the least excuse. Just as if miniskirts were difficult to spot, Zambian girls are often stopped and ordered to pick up a penny thrown on the sidewalk-if the man from U.N.I.P. sees too much...
...campaign has already reached beyond hemlines. Style-conscious mobs have ripped off wigs and lopped off artificially straightened hair when they have cornered Zambian girls who have tried to Westernize their locks. Users of skin-lightening creams have had their faces plastered with mud; bright lipstick has been forcibly removed with sandpaper. "We are determined to wipe out this sort of thing," explains one U.N.I.P. youth official...