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After the recent coup in Zanzibar, TIME's East Africa Correspondent Bill Smith tried in vain to get to the scene by plane, finally chartered a dhow to take him the 23 miles from Tanganyika to the embattled island. On arrival, Smith had barely begun to interview a U.S. official when Zanzibar police seized his notes and placed him and several other Western journalists under detention. The charges included sending "biased" stories-although Reporter Smith had not yet cabled a word. After almost 24 hours and some browbeating, he was released and placed aboard a British vessel...
...coup that last week toppled Zanzibar's month-old government had its roots in racial conflict. Africans outnumber Arabs 5 to 1 on the tiny twin islands of Zanzibar and Pemba (pop. 310,000). In last year's elections, the two Arab parties won control of the government although the black Afro-Shirazi Party polled 54% of the vote. Now the blacks exercised their plurality in a more direct manner. Before the week was out, more than 500 Zanzibaris were dead, and the new government-packed with leftists loyal to Peking and Havana-threatened to make once-somnolent...
Bows & Arrows. The transition was swift and bloody. Led by a fanatical Uganda-born and Cuban-trained "field marshal" named John Okello, 27, a ragtag, 600-man army carrying pangas, bows and arrows raided two police armories. Then the rebels swept into Zanzibar Town before dawn, passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...
Rage & Recognition. Worried for the safety of American citizens on the is land, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Frederick Picard quickly evacuated the Project Mercury Space Tracking Station outside Zanzibar Town and sent dozens of official personnel and dependents off to Tanganyika on a U.S. destroyer. But four American newsmen (including TIME'S William Smith) arrived in Zanzibar to provide a target for the government's wrath. The reporters sailed in on an Arab dhow and began asking questions. Karume, who wanted no visitors, had them placed under house arrest in the Zanzibar Hotel. When Picard intervened...
Recognition of the new regime poured in from Communist countries: North Korea, Cuba, Red China, the Soviet Union. Okello, taking time out from his broadcasting to thank Moscow for its recognition, messaged Nikita Khrushchev his agreement that capitalism should be buried. On Zanzibar at least, declared Okello, "the grave is ready...