Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nyerere, 55, who led his country to independence 16 years ago, the simmering guerrilla war in Rhodesia overshadows matters much closer to home. Besides the problem of his socialist nation's faltering economy, he is confronted with the collapse of the East African Community that bound Tanzania with neighboring Kenya and Uganda in economic union, and the open hostility of Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada, who accuses him of plotting an "invasion" in cahoots with former Ugandan President Milton Obote. Nonetheless, the future of southern Africa remains Nyerere's main concern, as he made clear in an hour...
While world attention focused on the machinations of a mad dictator in Uganda last week, the continent's crucial contest remained the struggle between black and white in southern Africa. As guerrilla war sputtered across Rhodesia and unrest smoldered on in the black ghettos of South Africa, TIME Senior Editor John Elson spoke with the principal proprietors and policymakers of the continent's white power bastion-South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Vorster received Elson with Reporter Peter Hawthorne in his 18th-floor office in the Hendrik Verwoerd Building in Cape Town...
...expect to receive financial and military aid from South Africa in fighting the guerrilla...
...discussion of a Jordanian-Palestinian federation, Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat is expected to fly this week to Amman for talks with King Hussein. For Arafat, such a trip will be not quite a journey to Canossa, but very close to it. An organizer of the Al Fatah guerrilla movement, who once directed fedayeen operations against Israel from Jordanian caves, he has not seen Amman since the Black September of 1970, when Hussein's army took bloody action because the Palestinians had become so independent in their assaults on Israeli territory that they were defying the King...
...also, in many respects, a baffling one. The most prominent guerrilla group, the Patriotic Front headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, denied responsibility, though most white Rhodesians felt the Front-or some segment of it-was implicated. Blaming guerrillas whom he did not identify, the black Archbishop of Salisbury, the Most Rev. Patrick Chakaipa, called the mass murder "an evil act that makes a mockery of the ideals these people profess to serve." In Rhodesia, as in South Africa, the Catholics have often opposed the ruling white regime but nonetheless have been caught in the crossfire. Only two months...