Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soames showed far less tolerance toward other, more serious cease-fire breaches last week. Reacting to the reported infiltration of 600 to 700 ZANLA insurgents from Mozambique, he ordered Rhodesian troops into action along the country's eastern border. In another flagrant cease-fire violation, ten guerrillas attacked a white farm near the northwestern town of Sinoia, precipitating a clash with Rhodesian paramilitary police that left seven insurgents dead. The Commonwealth monitoring force suffered its first combat-related casualties when a Land-Rover detonated a mine, injuring a British soldier and a senior Patriotic Front field commander. The precarious...