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Show I O The Sail Lake 1 1 ilmnr. Sunday H7T Vpiilli . s Railway Through Africa A 1.1 62-Mile-L- ? . I f ong 'a, JB $ 4 I V 1 1 1 1 ? 's A ' -- Monument to Chinese I ( Nt V ,, 'tk - .States Hi itain. F l alic e West Lei mail' and the Soviet I num weie all equally cool Bit the Chinese in the lace oi EDITOR NOTE The ratlrofttf ru M1 " Zambia to Tanrente, thauaft ooma a remotest artf touahaot caontrv to Africa It n P pnoe attha Chinese Rvo butit tt Haro it an account ot a trip by an AP correspondent w ta ,.,vv ,x 1.S.S Westell, skepticism, stepped in pi "ill H ising to build the railroad and finance with a SDim million, interest free loan i ns By Hi mi Coiisti net ion began in October. IHTu I iv e Associated Press U rite; years later, trams began using IN handed over io It was mad LAID HI MIOSHI, Zambia Ihe the 7amhian officially and Tanzanian govc-iLiu at I'lnini Railway ," Huna s show mi ids m July BIT" aan) pnijort in Africa Ugms Had Been Reservations incongruously at the end of a blood uni (int road in this bush town at fit heart 'hat time, Tanzania's President a! Zambia's copper belt, liNi nulcs trom admitted that at one .liihiis Nyc-iridie capital of Lusaka tin re had been reservations igiabuot ( lum-smotives n immaculately whitewashed, niai AAc no Doored station building towers oici call say this mm nut oi experiDie suitoundmg countryside dotted ence and not out cif trust " he added nth thati bed Atman huts and tin Never once has a ( hmese government ooled shanties tiled to Intel feie with the poilMcal or onomic policies f Tanzania We are It Is a momiiiu lit to the prestige with a deep sense of hiothoily lilt a "eking has gained by driving ' through some of the obligation A and remotest country in the Friday night ' Blue Train oughest Alrica lomplcting a project that both Expiess" churns thiough tin West and the Soviet I nion lel'used its whistle echoes over (he remote 'o tom h hushlaii'ls of not thei n Zambia But it is too eai ly to say if it brings a message of M.itiiUI Is ( row dell with the promise of economic hopiDll Illdav ni.'llts hefoie tile depai transformation for Zambians living m luieot one of the two wet kl "express' is sparse impoverished settlements Mams to the terminus in the Tanzanian On its journey from Rapid port capital of Dar Es Salaam, on the Indian Ocean, the station is crowded Mpnshi to Dar Es Salaam m Tanzania on the Indian Ocean, the dieel pasw nil several hundred Airmails tram through 147 staMothers suckle babies, childicii senger rattles passes over 3K) bridges sustions, 'camper across the floor between pended over rivers and ravines and is bulging cardboard boxes and large enveloped by the darkness of 23 tunnels bundles ot possessions tied til sheets, blasted through roc ky hillsides while African youths dressed in flowPaying Its Way ered shirts, bellboltom trousers and In the first six months after its platform shoe's parade up and down the station hall ollicial opening, it collected more than bis million m revenue from carrying Once the gates art opened there is a ush cross the platform to gain seats on 530,2(Ki tons of goods and 431,200 passengers. But it is not yet officially the train. The public address system blares out Western pop music. At one known if the railroad is paying its way. end of the train a group of the estimated It carries copper front Zambia and la. ooo Chinese technicians who built the fertilizer, frozen foods, butter and railroad, with the help of 45,000 .Afrwheat in the opposite direction icans, chat and joke among themselves I p to the Zambian border, there is Keep to Themselves little to see other than dense bush The Chinese, relaxed and uiipertui stretching as far as the eye can see. Zambian pop star Brian Chengala, on able, are all dressed in identical his w ay to a recording session in Keny a, blue-gra- y Mao suits and sport identical haircuts. They stand suggests a night club car would help drive away the boredom. Between the apart from other passengers, in line with Pekings instructions that they stations, only occasional villages are seen A child driving a herd of goats up keep to themselves and not upset local a hillside pauses to wave and women patterns of life with their presence. clothes in muddy ponds halt washing The Chinese boarding the "Blue their labors to watch the tram roll by. Tram Express" have compartments to Although the land appears fertile, themselves and m unegahtarian cult iv ation is sparse sty le are all traveling first class. ' Look at these people says a Life on board the Blue Tram is Fanunian gazing out of the carriage for and those in third class spartan window as the tram passes an imcompartments, often overcrowded A poverished Zambian village, with little British volunteer service overseas sign of productive farming "They are w orker two after complained spending lazy They must be encouraged to grow on uncomfortable nights the floor: "It food more is certainly a peoples train. But there are too many people." Spotlessly Clean As in Kapin Mpnshi. the Chinese-buil- t Restore Chinas Prestige stations dominate the surrounding But lor those in second- - and first areas. All are spotlessly clean and, who class coaches have bunks six to whether the tram stops night or day, a compartment hi second and four in pop music plays from public address lu st life is easier. sy step s On board passengers doze, Completion of the railroad more than chat, read and wander up and down the one year ahead of schedule and the "no corridors for exercise it rings" agreement under which it was Meals consist of one course only built have done much to restore Chinas with rice or local dishes of meat curries prestige in black Africa served on a dough made from maize. Chinas standing was badly tarnished Tea or coffee is only served at in the early liffiOs by Peking's support breakfast tor insurgencies against black governA major complaint among passenments in some newly independent is that no beer is available up to gers African states China believed Africa the Zambian border and soft drinks was l ipe for revolutions made in its own rapidly run out. When stocks are finally ullage But it was a policy that hi ought aboard in Tanzania, a group of hac killed the Chinese rapidly appear in the duung It was i eplaced in the late lfHiUs by a tar and. jumping ahead of the queue, new policy ol trying to win friends and buy three ciates of beer and four of soft niluenee people m Africa through aid drinks - that offered Chinese expertise o'ciject'i group of laughing passengeis start and promises of in the the Chinese and mimicking mil itei affairs of the states involved modes of i "i Je-ff- ' SC " jL - Sn linMirs 1 s' ,1V 7 S . V - J s "i ' - f y. f t. jugNT ' SJ S' 1 1 Railna bia. Freedom railwa" iraerses a bridge while heading for Zam- - , project, spurned the West and the Russians, b j el become a 'hoveae Africa. to aid lin t hina eiii i -- THE RE-DO- ... RE-NE- W, Vl-e- - REDECORATE PLACE...' 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