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...year-old bush war to a new and ominous stage. The purpose of South Africa's latest incursion: to strike at SWAPO sanctuaries and supply bases in Angola, with the possible side effect of strengthening Pretoria's position in negotiations over independence for the territory of Namibia, or South West Africa, which South Africa has controlled since...
...assaults, South African counterinsurgency experts say that the ANC is stepping up the violence in order to win greater international recognition for the movement, which still does not have anything resembling the support accorded to South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrillas in the disputed territory of Namibia...
...with Soviet or Communist bloc weapons, is outside South Africa in the "frontline" states of Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The South African military of 86,000 on active duty and 400,000 potential reserves is already kept busy fighting a brushfire border war against SWAPO guerrillas infiltrating into Namibia. More and more frequently of late, the South Africans are employing "hot pursuit" tactics: military incursions into neighboring black-ruled countries that bring the conflict closer to conventional war. Earlier this year South African commandos crossed the frontier into Mozambique and destroyed what they claimed to be an ANC headquarters...
...resisting Soviet expansion, he said, but he made a strong plea that anti-Communism not be equated with opposition to national liberation struggles. As he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City: "The U.S. should support liberation movements everywhere. The case in point is now Namibia. We pressed our friends in Washington to put more pressure on South Africa to comply with the United Nations resolution [calling for South Africa to grant independence to Namibia], and we expect a prompt response...
South Africa's military is indisputably the most powerful in the region. Commando units regularly conduct illegal raids with impunity across the borders of neighboring countries in search-and-destroy missions against A.N.C. guerrillas or forces of Namibia's South West...