Word: lesotho
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...trucks, 16 planes and 24 helicopters to distribute foodstuffs. The European Community granted nearly $42 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia, Mauritania, Niger, Mali and Chad for this year. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome approved $415.8 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Lesotho. And Australia added $3.5 million in extra food aid to the $9 million already pledged to African countries. Said UNICEF's representative in Addis Ababa: "We have been asking for help since early 1983. It seems you have to have thousands of corpses before people will sit up and take...
...Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into the clergy, rising rapidly in the Anglican Church in southern Africa and becoming Bishop of Lesotho in 1976. Along the way, Tutu also became a leading voice in the battle against apartheid. His outspoken courage, coupled with the nonviolent nature of his message, last week brought Bishop Tutu, now 53, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. "You feel humble, you feel proud, elated and you feel sad," said...
During the next hour, 100 South African commandos who had crept across the border only a few hundred yards away fanned out along the streets, seeking out targets. Meeting no opposition from Lesotho's tiny 2,000-man paramilitary force, they blasted their way through at least a dozen homes. By morning the body count was 42; of the dead, 30 were believed to be members of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), a black nationalist organization dedicated to overthrowing the white minority government of South Africa. The remaining victims were Lesotho residents, including five women and two children. Their...
...dawn announcement in Pretoria, General Constand Viljoen, chief of the South African Defense Force, explained that the raid, unofficially named "Operation Blanket," had been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...
...A.N.C. spokesman in Zimbabwe denied the South African charges and denounced the invasion as a "coldblooded massacre." Charging that the A.N.C. members killed were political refugees, not terrorists, Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles D. Molapo, labeled the attack "murder" and asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Given the landlocked country's economic dependence on South Africa, however, the raid was not likely to lead to a break in relations with Pretoria...