Word: limpopo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though whites in Salisbury do not like to admit it, Rhodesia is already at war along its entire 800-mile border with Mozambique, from the Zambezi River in the north to the Limpopo in the south. Local villages have been terrorized by black guerrillas, buildings burned, cars ambushed on lonely roads in broad daylight, buses blown up by mines. Army helicopters hunt guerrillas in scrubland and forested hill country along the frontier, and patrols in brown and green camouflage probe cautiously through the brush, automatic weapons at the ready. To protect themselves, white farmers have installed pushbutton alarm systems that...
...detente efforts with black Africa, the Pretoria government is not about to send troops into Rhodesia. "If it comes to that," a South African general recently told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, "there will certainly be some volunteers to go and fight, but we won't cross the Limpopo River [the South African-Rhodesian border...
...What was the great grey green greasy Limpopo River all set about with...