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Gerrie de Villiers, a white farmer, was driving along a dirt road that borders Zimbabwe when he set off the first Czech-made antitank land mine. He escaped unhurt. About half a mile away, Elijah Makagamatha, a black truck driver, triggered a similar device. He too was unharmed, but the blast shattered the legs of a passenger. The next day another mine explosion killed a 25-year-old black driving a tractor. As security officials combed the area, rocket attacks narrowly missed two coal-to-oil refineries at Secunda, near Johannesburg. The outlawed African National Congress called the attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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