Word: fouche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 82, who as Defense Minister of South Africa helped turn the country into a virtual fortress of white apartheid rule and later served as President from 1968 to 1975; in Cape Town. In 1962, fearing an attack by a black "army of liberation" based in other African nations, Fouché initiated South Africa's largest-ever peacetime military buildup and warned its neighbors: "Stay where you are or there will be trouble...