Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most plausible culprit was initially thought to be South Africa. Pretoria denied the charge, as well as a subsequent rumor that the South Africans had been testing a tactical weapon for their fleet of Israeli-designed missile boats. Last week CBS News reported another possibility: the light burst had been caused by an Israeli nuclear test conducted with the "help and cooperation" of South Africa. The report, which was based on an unpublished book by two Israeli former journalists, was immediately dismissed by Jerusalem as "complete nonsense" and by Pretoria as "ridiculous." Washington said it had no evidence either...
...Scotland Yard has entered the investigation, and as a Greek shipping executive in London observed last week, "It's a lulu." At the heart of the mystery may be the oil needs of South Africa. Blacklisted by Arab oil producers, and with no wells of its own, the Pretoria government has said it will buy oil however and wherever it is available. Aware of South Africa's needs, a group of high-seas swindlers allegedly went to work. The prime suspect is Soudan. A resident of Houston, the 36-year-old Lebanese expatriate was an insurance agent...
...attacked for violating the peace settlement by allowing a 250-man South African army unit to remain just inside the border at Beitbridge to protect the vital rail bridge Unking the two countries. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere made blustering threats to break off relations with Britain unless Soames ousts Pretoria's troops and stops deploying the Rhodesian security forces...