Word: anc
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...executed were common murderers. The others-Thello S. Mogoerane, 23; Jerry Mosololi, 25; and Marcus Motaung, 27-were guerrillas of the outlawed African National Congress (ANC), the black resistance movement dedicated to toppling South Africa's white supremacist government. Despite ANC claims that the trio deserved to be treated as prisoners of war for their part in attacks that killed four policemen in 1979 and 1981, the South African courts handed down criminal convictions. In the international outcry that followed the convictions, the European Community, the United Nations Security Council, more than 50 U.S. Congressmen and Senators, and hundreds...
...While at Harvard we see Bok speaking about how divestiture is incorrect, in South Africa we are in the executions of the ANC Three what the evil is of the system," she added...
Since the Sharpeville massacre, the ANC has developed a mass following and an increased paramilitary sophistication. In June 1980, the ANC simultaneously blew up two coal-to-oil fuel installations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal regions. And the newly leaked CIA report says the ANC's "major incidents" against the state increased from 10 in 1980 to 41 in 1981. Even now, the organization exercises restraint, as the CIA points out: "It is clear the ANC could have inflicted a large number of white casualties if it had chosen...
...Reagan Administration, already linked to the South African government, may be about to ally itself openly with the regime against the ANC. In September, CIA chief William Casey met with South African leaders in Pretoria, where he was urged to help them force neighboring countries such as Mozambique and Angola to end their support for the ANC. The recent U.S.-backed billion-dollar loan to South African will help it enforce a hastily planned series of internal repression policies...
...cannot save South Africa. Ex-CIA official Admiral Bobby Inman recently acknowledged in a speech at Harvard that the South African government is doomed. As was true in the World War II resistance movements in countries such as France and Yugoslavia, a young radical leadership has emerged within the ANC. And like their European predecessors, the ANC must now make a final, violent bid for victory...