Word: zambian
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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During the independence festivities only one noted Zambian failed to share in all the harmony. He is Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, a grade-school science teacher and the director of Zambia's National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy, who claimed the goings-on interfered with his space program to beat the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the moon. Already Nkoloso is training twelve Zambian astronauts, including a curvaceous 16-year-old girl, by spinning them around a tree in an oil drum and teaching them to walk on their hands, "the only way humans can walk...
...wants to banish British South Africa's mineral rights along with the Union Jack. Accepting the inevitable, the company agreed to turn over its rights to the new government, but held out for fair compensation. When the British government failed in its efforts to arrange a settlement, Zambian Finance Minister Arthur Wina angrily flew home, threatening to cancel all mineral rights immediately after independence...
...London-based holding company that once ran the Rhodesias as a corporate fief. Simply known as "Chartered," the company raised its own army to cut through the bush and opened up the copper belt. As both ruler and landlord, Chartered also built railroads, clinics and some schools. But Zambian nationalists, who dispute the legality of the company's rights, claim that it duped Lewanika and other illiterate tribal chieftains into signing away their rights...
...return home, Kaunda beamingly shook hands with his Cabinet ministers, who had turned out in slogan-emblazoned "freedom shirts." Then he drove through cheering crowds to his neon-lighted United National Independence Party headquarters (formerly a dry-cleaning plant). There he praised his reception as "nonracial, nontribal and purely Zambian." Then the Black Lion, who has shrewdly raised the pay of his soldiers and police to discourage dissension like that which jarred East Africa, made clear that he can be as tough as he is mild-mannered. Said he, addressing himself to his country's often troublesome trade unions...