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...most destructive and audacious act of sabotage in South Africa's history. In a series of coordinated nighttime raids against petroleum complexes in the small oil towns of Sasolburg and Secunda, black nationalist guerrillas cut their way through chain-link fences surrounding two adjoining refineries in Sasolburg and then planted several limpet mines with expert precision. The explosions destroyed a total of eight fuel storage tanks and set off towering fires that raged for nearly two days. A third installation at Secunda, 90 miles east of Johannesburg, was rocked by seven bomb blasts but suffered only limited damage...
...materialize in black Africa. More important, most experts agree, is the record of the Christian missionaries. According to one theory, the past stereotype that missionaries were deeply disliked and distrusted stemmed from colonists, not from Africans. Today missionaries are sometimes seized upon as political scapegoats and expelled by new nationalist leaders. But Africans are still surprised and touched by the willingness of missionaries to struggle in the hinterlands, helping to dig wells, teaching reading and writing, commanding life-giving sacks of grain during periods of famine, risking their lives trying to cure the sick...
...bastion of white minority rule. South African leaders now face mounting pressure both from within and without to dismantle apartheid and give the country's 19 million blacks a share of political power. One sign of the assertive new black mood is a nationwide campaign to free jailed Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela, president of the outlawed African National Congress (ANC). Even some progovernment Afrikaans newspapers and business leaders have joined with blacks in arguing that the government must negotiate with Mandela and other influential militants "before it is too late...
...Court also sentenced seven codefendants to terms ranging from 12 years to life imprisonment for what it ruled was support of the movement for Taiwanese independence and for plotting to overthrow the Chinese govern nationalist government...
...General Union of Palestinian Women, an organization with approximately 100,000 members that supports many of the P.L.O.'s programs in health and education. She also directs the P.L.O.'s multimillion-dollar assistance program for families of Palestinians killed or captured in various conflicts. An ardent nationalist even as a young girl in Gaza, she became the first woman to join Al Fatah at the age of 16. The struggle to preserve a Palestinian identity was so strong at that time, she says, that "a Palestinian woman had to do a man's work...