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Zambia's economy was stricken by Kaunda's decision two years ago to go along with United Nations sanctions against the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia, from which Zambia bought almost all of its imports. The government thereupon had to impose rationing, buy its goods in more expensive markets and ship by air and truck routes the bulk of the copper that once moved cheaply over Rhodesia's railroad to ports in Mozambique. As a result, Kaunda has had to curtail his $1.2 billion four-year development plan. Because of high black unemployment, average income is only...
Repairing the Image. King was more concerned with his planned "camp-in" of poverty-stricken Southern Negroes in the nation's capital, planned for April 22. There, as he wrote in a news release that reached S.C.L.C. supporters the morning after his death, he hoped to "channelize the smoldering rage of the Negro and white poor" in a showdown demonstration of nonviolence. Memphis was supposed to be only a way station toward Washington. Yet when he agreed to continue the Memphis struggle, it was under threat of both death and dishonor...
Even before King was pronounced dead, NBC and CBS deployed film crews to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Duke Ellington was playing a benefit for a Mississippi Negro college. As it began, the producer announced the news and cameras caught the stunned and horror-stricken faces in the audience. From Cleveland, CBS carried a film of tear-streaked Mayor Carl Stokes Negro as his constituents sang America. No less eloquent was an interview with Ben Branch, a King aide who had been with him at the time of the assassination and who was still too be numbed to respond...
Though the Plant Lady, as her fans call her, went on the air only seven months ago, she is already pulling 500 letters a week filled with questions as well as the remains of stricken leaves, buds and twigs. She doesn't mind picking through the "deb-ree"; as an archaeologist trained at the London School of Economics, she has been digging around in the ground for one purpose or another most of her adult life. The wife of Hugh Mencken, curator of European archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she lives in a rambling clapboard house...
...allies are making major efforts to improve security along the highways and waterways; two weeks ago the first truck convoy since Tet, bearing relief goods for Hué, moved up the vital Highway 1 from Danang to the stricken city. In the face of the massive Communist threat throughout the corps, little else but mobile defense is being undertaken. Some 2,000 civilian volunteers are being armed in Hué, Danang, Quang Tri City and other cities as "people's self-defense forces...