Word: zanzibar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital of Dar es Salaam than he called in U.S. Ambassador William Leonhart and informed him that two American officials were "engaged in subversive activities" and would have to leave the country in 24 hours. One was Embassy Counselor Robert Gordon. The other was U.S. Consul in Zanzibar Frank Carlucci, a hustling, Swahili-speaking troubleshooter who had seemed to be getting on well with Nyerere (TIME...
...turned up last November by Tanzania Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, which purported to show the U.S. as leagued with Portugal in a plot to overthrow Nyerere's government. A second theory was that Nyerere believed Carlucci and Gordon were behind the abortive Arab-backed coup that failed in Zanzibar last month...
Though the script read like a rejected passage from an Evelyn Waugh novel of black Africa, it did indeed happen-to Julius Nyerere, last week in Zanzibar...
Imperfect Merger. Eight months ago. President Nyerere signed the articles of confederation that united his mainland nation of Tanganyika with the tiny, troublesome offshore island state of Zanzibar. At the time, Zanzibar had just gone through a far-left coup against the ruling Arab minority. African Leader Abeid Karume had been installed as President, and his regime seemed about to slide under Peking domination. The union forestalled that, and Karume reluctantly agreed to serve under Nyerere as a mere Vice President of the newly formed nation known as Tanzania. Last week, as Nyerere paid his first state visit...
...island runs on Swahili time-a full six hours behind the mainland-hence it was still morning on the afternoon Nyerere landed. Vice President Karume is still known as President on Zanzibar. Island officials obstinately control their own customs and immigration affairs, maintain and jealously censor an independent cable and wireless network, and conduct external trade and finances through their own ministries. The tough, green-uniformed troopers of the People's Liberation Army-composed mostly of Communist-leaning hoodlums who had led the anti-Arab coup-still stalk the streets armed with Russian burp guns. They are backed...