Word: khartoum
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...swampy, southernmost provinces of Africa's largest country. For the past six. months, the region has been the scene of bloody uprisings among its 4,000,000 Negro tribesmen against their Arab rulers from the North. The Sudan's Prime Minister, moderate Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, announced in Khartoum last week that "the situation is much improved. The rebels will be crushed by the end of this year." From their hideout in neighboring Uganda, rebel leaders proclaimed that "apart from the military and some merchants, we have cleared the Arabs from the South...
...American weapons. In South Viet Nam, sticks of paratroopers fell and bloomed from big-bellied U.S. Hercules transports in the grandest airdrop of the war. In Yemen sun-blackened Arab guerrillas warily avoided Egyptian troops; in the Sudan, rebellious blacks kept up a tenacious hit-and-run pressure on Khartoum's troops. Befeathered Simbas in the Congo set ambushes for Colonel Mike Hoare's mercenary force. Turks and Greeks on Cyprus, Indonesians and Malays in the Malacca Straits, Portuguese and Angolans in West Africa, OAS troops and Dominicans in Santo Domingo -all kept their powder dry and their...
...Defense Minister Gaston Soumialot announced that he had deposed Gbenye, who retorted angrily that he was undeposable. From his exile quarters in the Sudan, People's Army Commander Nicho'as Olenga renounced them both, claimed that he alone spoke for the revolution-until last month, when the Khartoum government charged that he had been conspiring with the Sudan's own rebel movement and threw him in jail...
...Khartoum the army was ordered on emergency alert, and heavy guards were ringed around government buildings to prevent sabotage. Prime Minister Mahgoub flew back from a quick trip to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya with the news that all three nations had agreed to give no aid to the rebels. Even so, pressures were growing in the black nations to support their fellow blacks against the Arab north, and the Nairobi Daily Nation warned that the war could grow into "another Viet Nam." "Is it too late for peace in the Sudan?" asked the Tanzania Standard. "It will be tragic...
...waves of reciprocal terrorism were just what the rebels had been waiting for. As thousands of black refugees fled the Sudan, leaders of the two southern parties showed up in Kenya and Uganda to try to line up all of black Africa against the Arabs. Charging that "the Khartoum government has embarked on deliberate genocide," they demanded intervention by the U.N., the Red Cross and the Organization of African Unity to free the south from "foreign domination...