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...targets. Meeting no opposition from Lesotho's tiny 2,000-man paramilitary force, they blasted their way through at least a dozen homes. By morning the body count was 42; of the dead, 30 were believed to be members of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), a black nationalist organization dedicated to overthrowing the white minority government of South Africa. The remaining victims were Lesotho residents, including five women and two children. Their mission accomplished, the South African troops returned home...
...country's political composition makes that goal elusive at best. On the far left, the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) makes periodic guerrilla raids from Angola into Ovamboland, the northern strip of Namibia where most Blacks still live. South Africa has spent the last decade trying to beat them back from the Ovamboland border. Meanwhile, the ruling regime has sought to pull together a party of native moderate leaders--tribal, white and Afrikaner--claiming that they, not SWAPO, represent the population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which...
Immediately after Reagan arrived, he met for an hour at his hotel with a fellow visitor to Costa Rica, El Salvador's Magana. As interim President, Magafta is the most formidable check on Roberto d'Aubuisson, the provocative right-wing leader of the Nationalist Republican Alliance. The conversation with Magafta concerned human rights and Salvadoran efforts to curb the country's murderous counterrevolutionary squads. Said Reagan after the meeting: "I think that they are trying very hard and making great progress against great odds...
...weeks ago, the Sino-American relationship was undergoing its most intense growing pains in a decade. The immediate cause of difficulty is a flare-up of the old dispute over the status of Taiwan. More than three decades after Mao Tse-tung's takeover of the mainland, the Nationalist government on the island still calls itself the Republic of China. Peking, on the other hand, regards Taiwan as a province under the sovereignty of the People's Republic. The Shanghai Communiqué that Nixon and Chou En-lai approved in 1972 was essentially an agreement to disagree...
...agents sent a phony threat letter to Kenyatta while he was at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, working with the Jackson Human Rights project. The letter--which was signed by the "Tougaloo College Defense Committee" and approved by FBI headquarters under the bureau's Counter-Intelligence Program against "Black nationalist" groups--stated that the group disapproved of Kenyatta's activities at Tougaloo. "You are directed to remain away from this campus," it told...