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...troops' orders are to shoot if shot at, but they do not always do so. The Norwegians aroused Israeli suspicions by abandoning at least one village to the Palestine Liberation Organization after being fired on by P.L.O. mortars. "The situation is tense," explained a Norwegian officer. 'We are not going to make it any worse." The anomalous nature of the U.N. role is pointed up by the fact that, for patrol missions, the French have brought in eleven armored personnel carriers loaded with mortar launchers-not so much for fighting as for intimidating any combatants who happen...
Across Rhodesia's border with Zambia, meanwhile, black Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo last week was readying his 8,000-man Zimbabwe African People's Union for war on Smith, and mortar fire and artillery barrages from Mozambique crashed into the rugged foothills and tea estates near Rhodesia's Chimanimani Mountains. In view of such reactions, the settlement between Smith and the three black leaders appears to be more an uncertain beginning than an end. The Prime Minister may recognize this. But in an interview last week with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, Smith reiterated his pledge to bring about...
...skirmishes were fought with swords and camels. Today heavy tanks grind through the stony wastes, villages are destroyed by enemy shells, livestock are seized by both armies, and townspeople live in terror of attack from the air. The desert is strewn with burned-out tanks, wrecked artillery, empty mortar casings...
...major policy change has occurred at HUD since 1974, Hills said. Since that year the government has been subsidizing rents instead of providing bricks and mortar for housing projects, she said...
...Salisbury discotheque last week, to the pulsating shock waves of an amplified band that seemed as loud as a mortar barrage, "troopies" (soldiers) and their birds were rocking to a song about the country's bad news. It appeared, in fact, that the blues had become an informal national anthem. As gloomy figures on war casualties and economic decline continued to seep in, record numbers of white Rhodesians were moving out. The latest mission to Salisbury by an Anglo-American negotiating team was called a failure by the Rhodesian government...