- Title: TANZANIA: VICE-PRESIDENT JUMBE OPENS ANNUAL RALLY OF TANU YOUTH LEAGUE.
- Date: 8th October 1973
- Summary: 1. GV Exterior Vice-President Jumbe on steps watching youth member march up and give salute 0.10 2. SCU Jumbe 0.13 3. SV Youth member salutes and marches off 0.18 4. SV Members march past in ranks 0.21 5. GV Vice-President and officials watching 0.22 6. SV Interior Youth league member giving speech (2 shots) 0.30 7. SV Jumbe
- Embargoed: 23rd October 1973 13:00
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- Location: DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA
- Country: Tanzania
- Reuters ID: LVA47X36WREN5W7CVCBNSND9N19W
- Story Text: The Annual Conference of the Tanganyika National Union's (TANU) Youth League was officially opened in Dar es Salaam on Thursday (October 4th) by Tanzania's First Vice-President Mr. Aboud Jumbe.
Mr. Jume, Youth League Chairman Mr. Patrice Qorro, and other officials took a salute of young TANU members. This was followed by speeches from young members and an address from Mr. Jumbe. The conference was held in the Adult Education Institute.
The Youth League's assistance has been enlisted by the government in enforcing their campaign against indecent dress. The week before the conference opened, 80 people were rounded up by TANU youth members for being improperly dressed.
SYNOPSIS: The annual conference of the Tanganyika National Union's (TANU) Youth League opened in Dar es Salaam on Thursday. It was held at the Adult Education Institute.
The Conference was opened by First Vice-President Mr. Aboud Jumbe. Among others attending the opening parade was the Youth League's chairman, Mr. Patrice Qorro. Delegations from Sudan, Somaliland and Zambia were also there.
Members of the youth league gave speeches explaining the radical aims of the movement. Their aid has been especially enlisted in the government's drive to stamp out what it considers to be indecent dress. In the week before the conference seventy men and ten women were rounded up by Youth League members for wearing indecent dress. A branch secretary said they were later released with a stern warning not to repeat their behaviour. Earlier in the day the delegates had been entertained with a display of traditional dancing and revolutionary songs.
First Vice-President Jumbe also gave an address. Two days later he flew to Uganda to celebrate that country's eleventh anniversary of independence. This is a sign of closer relations between the two countries after two-and-a-half years of tension, during which President Nyerere has not recognized the regime of General Idi Amin.
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