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Strolling through the peaceful vegetable gardens and fruit trees at his country retreat 40 miles outside the capital city, Maseru, Lesotho's Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan early last week was the picture of self-confidence. Yes, admitted the Prime Minister, his country had been shaken by a 19-day ) blockade by South Africa, which completely surrounds the mountainous kingdom (pop. 1.5 million). But Chief Jonathan, 71, who had ruled Lesotho (pronounced Leh-sue-too) in an increasingly autocratic manner since its independence from Britain in 1966, smoothly dismissed rumors that his government might be toppled by a military takeover...
...clock in the morning a full moon shone over Maseru (pop. 75,000), capital of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a mountainous enclave within South Africa. Most of the residents had gone to bed, except for a few night owls playing the slot machines and roulette wheels of Maseru's two casinos. Suddenly the staccato of gunfire rocked the night. Lesotho had been invaded...
...Maseru, Lesotho, Sept. 2. A bomb tore off the roof of the terminal building at Maseru airport and shattered windows in an adjoining restaurant and airline offices. Next day bombs exploded in a crowded bar and outside the U.S. International Communication Agency. The attacks were presumed to be the work of the Lesotho Liberation Army...
...time. Then, on the night after Donald left, she bundled her children into the car, telling friends that they were off on a brief coastal holiday. Instead, she drove straight to Lesotho without attracting the attention of police, crossed the border routinely and joined her husband in Maseru, the Lesotho capital...
...remoter corners of the landlocked southern African state of Lesotho, the fastest means of communication is a yell across the mountainous kingdom's multitudinous valleys. Last week those cries brought word to Maseru, the capital, that an all-out guerrilla war seemed to be brewing in the rugged Maluti Mountains of the north...