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...agreement. At that point the Emperor called the negotiators to his palace and guaranteed the southerners' well-being in his own name and that of the 41-nation Organization for African Unity. The rebels then abandoned their demand for a separate army, and the Sudanese government in Khartoum agreed to grant more autonomy for the south than it had originally intended...
Then, as paratroopers trained rifles at the defendant's chest, the prosecutor rose to address the five-member military tribunal in the sweltering Khartoum People's Court. "In the name of God," he declared, "Rolf Steiner is an enemy of humanity and of the African peoples in particular. You will not try the accused alone, but the evil ideas, the organizations and the imperialist countries that are still seeking to exploit the Third World and drain its resources by aiding and creating mutinies and waging civil strife...
Khaki-Clad Knight. The scene in the Khartoum courtroom last August was memorable for more than its drama. It marked the first time that a white mercenary had ever been brought to trial in Africa. Last week the tribunal rendered its verdict: the German-born Steiner, 42, was guilty of aiding the 15-year-old rebellion of black southern Sudanese against the northern Arab government. Steiner was sentenced to death, but President Jaafar Numeiry immediately commuted the sentence to 20 years' imprisonment...
...recent coup and countercoup in the Sudan. Restored to power two weeks ago, Sudan's Major General Jaafar Numeiry accused the Soviet Union and Bulgaria of having had a hand in his temporary overthrow. Last week he summarily expelled the senior Soviet and Bulgarian diplomats in Khartoum, withdrew his own envoy to Moscow, and sacked the five Communist Ministers in his Cabinet. Fearful of being attacked by angry Arab mobs, hundreds of Russian and East European technicians in the Sudan remained in their quarters. When the Soviet press launched an attack against him for his anti-Communist campaign, which...
...counter the criticism, Numeiry convened a press conference in Khartoum and described the treatment he had received when he was held by the rebels during the coup. "It was reprehensible," he said. "I went to the toilet only once in four days when I absolutely insisted on it." Then Numeiry put the onus for any breakdown in relations on the Russians. "If they want to choose that path, we will have no alternative," Numeiry said-which could mean he may beat the Russians to the punch by expelling the advisers before the Kremlin could order them to return home...