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R 271720Z APR 76
FM AMEMBASSY LUSAKA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3282
INFO AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM
AMEMBASSY GABORONE
AMEMBASSY LONDON
AMEMBASSY MAPUTO
AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
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E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: PINT, PGOV, ZA
SUBJ: KAUNDA OPENS EIGHTH NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING WITH CALL FOR
"PURIFICATION" OF ZAMBIA FROM FOREIGN CULTURAL AND
IDEOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM
1. SUMMARY. PRESIDENT KAUNDA OPENED EIGHTH SESSION OF NATIONAL
COUNCIL OF HIS RULING UNITED NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE PARTY APRIL
27. PRESIDENT'S SPEECH CONTAINED STRONG ATTACK ON CAPITALISM
AND (LESS STRONGLY) ON MARXISM-LENINISM AS FORMS OF IDEOLOGICAL
IMPERIALISM TO BE SHUNNED BY ZAMBIANS. KAUNDA CALLED FOR POLI-
TICAL AND CULTURAL PURIFICATION OF ZAMBIAN SOCIETY, ROOTING OUT
CORRUPTION AND TRIBALISM, ANNOUNCED NEW GUIDELINES FOR LOANS
WHICH WOULD TEND FAVOR RURAL OVER URBAN AND COOPERATIVES OVER
PRIVATE BORROWERS. OF PARTICULAR NOTE WAS HIS OFFER OF 17
DAY GRACE PERIOD TO THOSE WHO HAVE ACQUIRED WEALTH ILLEGALLY
TO CONFESS TO HIM. NO MENTION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ISSUES IN SPEECH
WHICH WAS LARGELY REHASH OF FAMILIAR THEMES AND REITERATION
OF CRITICISMS OF OBSTACLES TO CONSTRUCTIN OF HUMANIST SOCIETY
WHICH KAUNDA HAS SET AS ZAMBIA'S GOAL. END SUMMARY.
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2. IN NEARLY THREE HOUR SPEECH DELIVERED AFTERNOON APRIL 27
FOLLOWING MORNING OF MEETINGS WITH SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER,
PRESIDENT KAUNDA OPENED EIGHTH SESSION OF NATIONAL COUNCIL, HIGH-
EST POLICY MAKING LEVEL OF HIS RULING UNIP. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
DEALTH WHOLLY WITH DOMESTIC ISSUES AND DID NOT ADDRESS FOREIGN
POLICY MATTERS. NOR WAS THERE ANY COMMENT ON PRESIDENT'S MEETINGS
THAT MORNING WITH SECRETARY KISSINGER OR OF LATTER'S STATEMENT
ON RHODESIA DELIVERED FOLLOWING STATE HOUSE LUNCHEON IN HIS
HONOR. FOCUS INSTEAD WAS PRIMARILY ON THOSE OBSTACLES REMAINING
TO CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEAL HUMANIST SOCIETY IN ZAMBIA AND
THE NEED TO COMBAT FOREIGN IDEOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL
INFLUENCES WHICH HAVE CONTINUED TO MISLEAD SOME ZAMBIANS AND
DIVERT THEM FROM GOALS PRESIDENT KAUNDA HAS SO OFTEN URGED THEM
TO PURSUE.
3. FOREIGN IDEOLOGIES. PRESIDENT CRITICIZED THOSE IN ZAMBIA TODAY
WHO ARE ATTRACTED BY FOREIGN IDEOLOGIES. HE HIT HARDEST AT
CAPITALISM, WHICH HE ALLEGED HAS CORRUPTION INHERENT IN IT
(REFERRING SPECIFICALLY TO SCANDALS INVOLVING ITT IN CHILE,
LOCKHEED, AND OTHER MULTINATIONALS), AND AT THOSE ZAMBIANS WHO
WANT THEIR COUNTRY TO BE "CARBON COPY OF THEIR FAVORITE CONSUMER
SOCIETY." BUT KAUNDA ALSO WARNED AGAINST ATTRACTIONS OF MARXISM-
LENINISM, NOTING THAT WHILE IT IS AN ALLY IN ZAMBIA'S STRUGGLE
AGAINST CAPITALISM "ALLIES ARE NOT MASTERS." ZAMBIANS HAVE
THEIR OWN INDIGENOUS REVOLUTION; "SOCIALISM HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE
IDEOLOGY OF THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE." KAUNDA ADDED THAT HE NOT TALKING
AGAINST COOPERATION WITH CAPITALIST OR MARXIST-LENINIST
FOREIGN STATES, ONLY AGAINST IMPORTATION OF THEIR IDEOLOGIES.
4. CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. PRESIDENT SPENT MUCH TIME ON NEED FOR
ZAMBIANS TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN CULTURAL HERITAGE. HE WAS SHARPLY
CRITICAL OF ALLEGEDLY HARMFUL INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN TEACHERS IN
ZAMBIAN SCHOOLS, ESPECIALLY AT UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA (UNZA).
TEACHERS WILL HENCEFORTH BE VESTED MORE CAREFULLY, ESPECIALLY
TO WEED OUT THOSE WHO TAKE ALCOHOL OR DRUGS ON CAMPUS; GREATER
PARTY CONTROL WILL BE EXERTED OVER UNZA "TO PROMOTE RIGHT ATMOS-
PHERE ON CAMPUS."
5. CORRUPTION. PRESIDENT DEPLORED CORRUPTION IN GRANTING OF LOANS
AND PROPOSED IMMEDIATE INTERIM GUIDELINES THAT WOULD RESTRICT
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NEW LOANS TO RURAL COOPERATIVES, FOOD PRODUCTION UNITS, AND
THOSE PRIVATE BUSINESSES PREPARED TO IMPLEMENT WORKER PARTICIPATORY
DEMOCRACY. MOST INTERESTING PART OF SPEECH WAS ANNOUNCEMENT OF
17-DAY GRACE PERIOD APRIL 28 -MAY 15 DURING WHICH ALL ZAMBIANS
WHO HAVE ACQUIRED WEALTH ILLEGALLY OR CONTRARY TO PARTY RULES CAN
WRITE CONFIDENTIALLY TO PRESIDENT, CONFESSING THEIR ERROR AND
EXPLAINING HOW THEY WILL DISPOSE OF THEIR ILLEGAL WEALTH. HE
WARNED THAT ANY LEADER WHO FAILED TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS GRACE
PERIOD WILL BE EXPOSED AND BROUGHT BEFORE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL.
END UNCLASSIFIED. PRESIDENT DID NOT REFER TO ANY SPECIFIC CASES
OF CORRUPTION BUT MAY HAVE HAD IN MIND CASE CURRENTLY UNDER IN-
VESTIGATION INVOLVING TWO DETAINED AMERICAN CITIZENS YATES AND
WHITFIELD AND WHICH IS SAID ALSO TO INVOLVE IMPORTANT POLITICAL
FIGURES.
6. COMMENT: SPEECH WAS MOSTLY RETRED OF FAMILIAR THEMES AND
ADMONITIONS TO ZAMBIANS, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE ELITE, TO LOOK
LESS TO LINING THEIR OWN POCKETS AND MORE TOWARDS PROMOTING THE
HUMANIST AND EGALITARIAN SOCIETY. CAPITALISM WAS LIBERALLY
DENOUNCED BUT, EXCEPT FOR THE NEW GUIDELINES ON THOSE ELIGIBLE
FOR LOANS, NO NEW RESTRICTIONS ON PRIVATE ENTERPRISE WERE RE-
COMMENDED TO THE PARTY FOR CONSIDERATION.
WILKOWSKI
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