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...United Nations, was desperately trying to breathe life into the seemingly paralyzed efforts to transfer power peacefully from Rhodesia's 271,000 whites to its 6.2 million blacks. Skirmishes between Rhodesian forces and black Nationalist guerrillas are now taking more than 300 black and white lives each month, and all-out racial war is a real danger if negotiations fail. Thus Richard's shuttle has been dubbed by some officials and journalists in southern Africa a safari of salvation...
All-Out Assault. Although M.P.L.A. forces and the Cubans control every city and town in the south, their garrisons in the bush are isolated, and roads linking them are constantly harassed by UNITA forces. The Luanda government has launched an all-out assault in southern Angola in an effort to finish off the resistance. So far its main achievement has been to terrorize innocent civilians. MiG fighter-bombers have napalmed entire villages near Angola's border with Namibia (South West Africa); herds of cattle have been slaughtered, not only to feed the attacking forces but to punish...
...playing a shrewd personal politics. By focusing the conservative crusade on his new party, he has launched a direct challenge to the "presidential majority" of current President Valery Giscard-D'Estaing. After resigning as Giscard's Prime Minister in August (largely because of the president's reluctance to declare an all-out attack on the leftist coalition), he has tacitly declared his own political war that can only escalate as the presidential election in 1981 approaches. In pursuit of both objectives he seems ready and willing to stir up dangerous reactionary sentiments...
...annual report, President Bok declares an all-out war on government regulation. "If Congress does not end its efforts to strangle us in red tape," Bok declares from his combat headquarters in a steam tunnel below Mass. Hall, "then I'll never appear on Meet the Press again...
...NUCLEAR WAR. Limited strategic war is almost impossible. Anyone who contemplates one is fooling himself if he thinks the chances are not overwhelming that it would become an all-out urban and industrial attack...