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...state is usually a target for assassination. I'm not worried. We all live a certain time. When the time is up, we go, and that's that. I go everywhere. I drive my own car. I usually like to drive in the first car of a convoy because that way I see more of my people and my country. That's what I live for, and that's what...
...defense force; the $25 million start-up cost is a heavy burden for a nation whose total population is a mere 780,000. Last year, in the most serious incident to date, a band of Rhodesian government commandos opened fire on a Botswana army convoy and killed 15 recruits; they were the first Botswanan soldiers ever to die in an African war. The incident set off a wave of anger throughout the country. Last month the Rhodesians carried out a commando raid 45 miles inside Botswana's territory, destroying a guerrilla office...
Amin and remnants of his forces were last seen Tuesday fleeing eastward toward Jinja, 50 miles away, in a convoy of limousines. Some reports said he had gone to Tototo, near the Kenyan border...
...black and white Rhodesians have been killed in six years of fighting; of those, 500 died last month alone, making January the third worst month for casualties since the war began. Almost 90% of the country is under one form or another of martial law; most people travel by convoy, with or without military escort, and most are armed. The Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, has 12,000 guerrillas inside Rhodesia and thousands more in neighboring Mozambique and Zambia. The prospect is that it will fight on as long as it thinks it has a chance...
Company-chartered planes airlifted American oil workers and their families from Abadan, site of Iran's biggest refinery. Chartered Boeing 707s flew in to Isfahan airport. One convoy of 50 cars headed for the Turkish border, another for Iraq. But the majority of evacuees converged on Tehran's airport, despite railroad and domestic airline strikes. Some went to the airport at night to avoid being seen. Shirley and Bill Johnson, a Texas couple who had hired a taxi for the 260-mile journey from Isfahan to Tehran, were asked by their driver, who did not want...