Word: ak
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...estimated 4,000 young blacks fled the country to avoid detention, and most of them joined the A.N.C. The result was an infusion of new blood and fighting spirit. Well before Tambo's recent declaration of a people's war, A.N.C. guerrillas armed with Soviet-made AK-47 rifles began to escalate their attacks on South Africa from bases in Angola, Zambia and Mozambique. Total occurrences of armed attack or urban sabotage believed to be the work of the A.N.C. have grown from 65 in 1983 to at least 180 so far this year...
...been the African National Congress, which since 1962 has been waging a low- level guerrilla war from bases in neighboring states. South Africa has effectively neutralized the A.N.C. through agreements, economic pressure and occasional cross-border military strikes. While terror bombings take place and mines, hand grenades and AK-47 assault rifles still kill and wound South Africans, mostly in township violence, the flow of weapons into the country is not enough for an armed insurrection...
...Ducking fire, the craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad in blue jeans and a Che Guevara T shirt, lay sprawled on the white cliffs...
Twenty armored vehicles sealed off the nearby black township of Bekkersdal, and police conducted a house-to-house search for those involved in the officers' deaths. At one roadblock, they arrested two men carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and six hand grenades. A total of 86 blacks were charged with murder or public violence, while an additional 250 people were detained and interrogated...
Four miles to the east of Nacfa, a once prosperous farm town that is now a bombed-out ruin, rebel fighters carrying Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles stand watch in trenches along a ridge. Across a narrow valley, in places just 60 yards away, Ethiopian troops are dug in. Some of their comrades, identifiable by their bright green uniforms, lie dead in no-man's-land. An exchange of automatic-weapons fire echoes through the valley. Moments later, two Soviet-built Ethiopian MiGs roar overhead in search of the rebels' camouflaged artillery and tank emplacements. Sipping...