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Julius Nyerere is in some ways an improbable haba wa taifa (father of a nation). A scholarly and somehow puckishly Gandhian man, he led Tanganyika to remarkably peaceful independence from Britain in 1961 and then presided over its union with the island of Zanzibar in 1964, when the two together became Tanzania...
...feels to have credentials lifted. Long rumored to be more of an intelligence operative than a reporter (TIME, Nov. 22), Kao lost his accreditation to India in 1960 because of "biased reporting." Not surprisingly, he scooped Western correspondents by a full 48 hours on a pro-Peking coup in Zanzibar in 1964. A year later, while still nominally a newsman, he was expelled from the Central African kingdom of Burundi along with Peking's entire embassy staff...
...exciting thing about the Kentucky Derby this year is that no one really has the faintest idea about who is going to win. Ever since Hoist the Flag got injured and faded from the Derby picture, every owner and trainer from here to Zanzibar has fancied that he has the horse that can run a mile and a quarter faster than the rest on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs...
...railroad, which is the largest aid project anywhere in the world. Fully 13,000 Chinese workers will be in Tanzania by summer. These days one of the swingingest places in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott is the Chinese cultural mission, which features French movies instead of propaganda films. In Zanzibar, where there are 400 Chinese in the aid mission, the latest building project is a rum distillery. Even imperial Ethiopia has established diplomatic relations with China...
...other hand, many popinjays have endured. In Lesotho, Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan, 56, engineered a coup last year after he was voted out at the polls. Nyerere's Vice President, Abeid Karume, 64, runs Moslem-dominated Zanzibar as an island unto itself, despite its 1964 incorporation into Tanzania; Karume has instituted "reforms" like forcing 14-and 15-year-old Zanzibar Asian girls to marry black Revolutionary Council members, including himself. In Equatorial (formerly Spanish) Guinea, following a business dispute with a West German pump manufacturer, President Francisco Macias Nguema seized the industrialist's wife last month...