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...Nyerere, 54, is the leader of the front-line-five chiefs, occupying the swing position between the moderates and the militants. Tanzania's capital, Dar es Salaam, is headquarters of the Organization of African Unity committee charged with planning confrontation strategy with white regimes, as well as a port for guerrilla supplies from the Soviet Union and China. Five thousand Rhodesian insurgents are training in Tanzanian camps...
...battle began a decade ago, when the N.A.A.C.P. led a boycott against white merchants, some of whom were public officials, in Port Gibson, Miss. The aim was to force such changes as the desegregation of the local schools, bus stations and hospital, the hiring of black policemen and the elimination of such terms of address as boy, girl, shine and uncle. In February 1967 the boycott was eased after the town hired its first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P...
...bond in a libel suit it lost a trial to a policeman from another Mississippi county. By last week an emergency round of fund raising-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson even passed the hat on the street in front of his office-had produced only $763,374 for the Port Gibson bond. At the same time a frantic series of court appearances was producing negative answers...
...darkness of night, Israeli commandos dashed ashore in the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh, some nine miles north of Beirut. As soon as they established contact with the Lebanese garrison, both forces spread out and secured a landing area. A helicopter slowly whirred up from an Israeli cargo ship standing offshore, guarded by a small armada of missile ships. The helicopter, TIME has learned, brought to Jounieh a top Israeli official who spent the night in a series of secret conferences with various Lebanese leaders, then climbed back aboard his helicopter and flew out to sea again, just before dawn...
...influence Namibia's future policies. For one thing, Namibia is critically short of water and electricity, and will have to acquire them from its powerful neighbor. Besides, South Africa provides practically all of Namibia's imports. And it will still control Walvis Bay, the only good port on Namibia's Atlantic coastline, which South Africa has held as a separate entity since 1910. Small wonder, then, that the new Namibian government is expected to sign a security agreement allowing South African troops to be based on Namibian soil. The troops will defend the new government against SWAPO...