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...northern area of Ovamboland. This flat bush country near the Angolan border offers SWAPO good cover and a minimum of geographical obstacles. In other sectors, the current rainy season and swollen rivers have slowed down both sides. The rains wash away SWAPO supply routes. At a camp in the Caprivi Strip, one South African company commander complained: "I've got a patrol out there that is cut off by three rivers that flooded last night. I'm going to have to extract them...
...source of power in an insurgency war lies with the people," said Major General Charles Lloyd, commander of the joint South African and local force. "The population is the battlefield." In the largely "pacified" Caprivi Strip, some 60% of the South African security forces are now made up of local blacks serving under white officers...
Some 850 Bushmen are organized into a separate battalion of the South West Africa Territory Force headquartered at Omega, a base camp in Namibia's northeastern Caprivi Strip. Assigned on a rotating basis to South African fighting units, the traditionally unwarlike Bushmen have distinguished themselves in combat. Five have been killed; one was posthumously awarded the Honoris Crux, one of the highest military decorations. Their tracking skills have introduced a new element to the counterinsurgency tactics. "They have fantastic eyesight," says a South African lieutenant, "and they can navigate in the bush without a compass or map." The Bushmen...
...Freedom Alley, a tiny, 50-yd. stretch of border between friendly Bechuanaland and Northern Rhodesia that refugees from South and South West Africa may cross in safety. Even so, only a rifle shot west of this chink in the apartheid curtain, menacing reed banks mask the end of the Caprivi Strip, a narrow arm of South West Africa that is heavily patrolled by armed South African cops. To the east, a wire game-fence marks the border of white-supremacist Southern Rhodesia, which also views with suspicion this traffic in escaping Africans...
...General had been German Chancellor up to last week since the days of gruff ungracious General Count Georg Leo von Caprivi who succeeded Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's Finger." Last week the Chancellorship fell like a ripe pippin into the calmly outstretched hand of swank, sardonic, intriguing Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher who is a full general...