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October 16, 1971

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PRESIDENT I-WE CAN'T GO TO THE MOON!

William Edgett Smith

PROFILE of Pres. Julius Kambarage Nyerere, of the United Republic of Tanzania. Tanzania was created in 1964, out of the independent nation Tanganyika. …