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Meanwhile, police engaged last week in a shoot-out with black militants on a road outside Cape Town. Officials said security officers mounted an ambush after informers told them that the men were A.N.C. guerrillas who planned to attack the police station in Guguletu, a black township near Cape Town. Seven A.N.C. militants were killed, but their presence near South Africa's southernmost city, far from the northern border area where the A.N.C. has been most active, is evidence that the group's 24-year-old insurgency campaign has become more aggressive. Indeed, sporadic bursts of violence erupted throughout...
...percent unemployment and absolutely no welfare, not even unemployment or health insurance. Food is shared communally to fend off starvation. The military does not dare enter the barrios, which are almost in a state of civil war. The slumdwellers have organized themselves and send out groups to ambush patrolling soldiers. But the poor have nothing, neither food nor guns, only their rage and their stones...
...biggest danger is not that the Green can ambush the Crimson, but rather that the lowly squad can knock Harvard out of the rhythm it's found of late...
...murdering a black policeman. The victim, Warrant Officer Philippus Selepe, 52, was slain with an automatic weapon outside his home near Pretoria in 1982. Moloise at first confessed to the crime but later recanted, charging police coercion. Later he said he had been involved in planning the ambush, but only because he was afraid that his associates in the African National Congress would kill him if he did not cooperate. The A.N.C., for its part, has insisted that its guerrillas, not Moloise, committed the murder. Moloise was, however, a firm supporter of the A.N.C. and the violent overthrow of apartheid...
When Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces from Lebanon last June, it warned that attacks on northern Israel would provoke retaliation. Last week, after rocket assaults on northern settlements, the death of two Israeli soldiers in a south Lebanon ambush and a string of suicide car-bomb attacks, the country made good its vow. Backed by helicopter gunships and heavy armor, Israeli troops stormed into three Lebanese Shi'ite communities near Israel's border. The primary target was Qabrikha, from where, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, Israel has been attacked by Katyusha rockets. The Israelis ordered residents...