Word: pan-african
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Virtually all black organizations and leaders that are carrying on the struggle against apartheid in South Africa call for U.S. corporate withdrawal. This is the official position of the Black People's Convention, the South African Students Organizations, the African National Congress, the Pan-African Congress, the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and the Christian Institute in South Africa...
...King Hassan II agreed to come to the rescue, as he had done following a similar raid on Shaba by Katangese rebels a year earlier. The King, however, is opposed to a plan, favored by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, to create a permanent pan-African military force under Western auspices that would be available for service in future emergencies in Zaïre and elsewhere on the continent...
...month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack and no faith in the proposed pan-African force to ward off the marauding Zaïrian army...
...meeting of five Western powers in Paris early this week, the French government will offer its plan for a pan-African force. Following that, there will be a previously scheduled meeting in Brussels at which the Western nations will try to find ways to revive Zaïre's bankrupt economy. The French have explained to their allies that they are anxious to withdraw the legionnaires because they think the problem should be solved by African and Western countries working together. In fact, they are also a little nervous about being caught in Zaïre in the event of another rebel...
...Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 53, black South African leader whose determined advocacy of black rights kept him in prison or under government restriction for the past 18 years; of lung cancer; in Kimberley, South Africa. A follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a believer in nonviolent civil disobedience, Sobukwe founded the Pan-African Congress as a splinter group from the African National Congress in 1959. Following his participation in 1960 demonstrations against the restrictive pass laws that control the lives of South African blacks, Sobukwe was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." When his term ended, Parliament passed...