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Throughout the trial, the Irish-born Hoare insisted that his operation had had the blessing of the South African government. "I see South Africa as the bastion of civilization in an Africa subjected to a total Communist onslaught," he said. "I foresee myself in the forefront of this fight for our very existence." Indeed, more than half of the convicted mercenaries had been members of either the South African Defense Force or the army reserve. There was also evidence that Soviet-made AK-47s and Chinese grenades and ammunition used by the mercenaries had been supplied by South African Defense...
TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart has been in the forefront of Lebanon's firing lines for more than two years. Those lines have now touched his life with uncomfortable intimacy. While reporting to magazine headquarters in New York City from the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut, Stewart got word that his apartment house had been shelled. He rushed home, and amid the piles of plaster and shredded furniture found his prized statue of a 17th century Buddha presiding undamaged over the wreckage. Only one hour before, Stewart had been in the apartment writing his story...
Some members of the Boston-based Physicians for Social Responsibility, which has been at the forefront of the movement, were concerned that the grass-roots call for nuclear disarmament might be co-opted by the radical left. Most nervous was the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which at week's end had not granted visas to 401 foreign participants who it said were connected with Communist organizations, despite a suit filed in federal court by U.S. civil rights groups demanding entry for the visitors. Meanwhile, White House officials were concerned that the rally could only hurt Administration attempts...
...case, religious activists are now entrenched in the nuclear freeze movement, and Harvard's School of Divinity is at the forefront of the crusade...
...point that hasn't been quite spelled out so far. This whole issue of limited nuclear options, limited nuclear war, I feel is much less motivated by political considerations or doctrinal considerations. In this particular case I'm a believer that it's technology-push that's at the forefront...It's not a matter of the technical community sort of sitting on their hands, you know. They've been pushing forward and developing new systems and letting the technology lead them. Now we have these weapons, now it's up to the decision-makers to figure out the reason...