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Throughout the trial, the Irish-born Hoare insisted that his operation had had the blessing of the South African government. "I see South Africa as the bastion of civilization in an Africa subjected to a total Communist onslaught," he said. "I foresee myself in the forefront of this fight for our very existence." Indeed, more than half of the convicted mercenaries had been members of either the South African Defense Force or the army reserve. There was also evidence that Soviet-made AK-47s and Chinese grenades and ammunition used by the mercenaries had been supplied by South African Defense...
TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis is the first Western print journalist who has visited the front since the Iranian invasion of Iraq two weeks ago. He traveled to the battle area on a blistering 125° day last week, soon after the Iraqi forces had repelled the first Iranian onslaught. His report...
...talks continued, with U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib serving as chief negotiator, there appeared to be just two possible outcomes: 1) a large-scale withdrawal from Lebanon of all or most of the Palestine Liberation Organization's 6,000 fighting men based in West Beirut; 2) an Israeli onslaught against the P.L.O.'s redoubt, leading to an Israeli victory over the P.L.O. and the death or injury of thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians as well...
...must accept defeat. We have all suffered too much madness and destruction." Everyone could agree on that. At week's end, as the Israelis moved to seal off all entry to West Beirut, the question was whether the negotiations could succeed in time to head off the Israeli onslaught. - By William E. Smith...
Against this onslaught were pitted some 2,000 regularly armed Panjshiri and an additional 1,500 to 2,000 guerrillas who had flooded in from neighboring valleys on the promise that they would be issued weapons to aim at the shuravi, the Afghan term for the Soviets. "We were happy when we heard the Soviets were coming," said one guerrilla. "When they were bombing us, there was nothing we could do. Now we have something to shoot...