Word: pretoria
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...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...
...registered the intensity and transmitted the data back to earth. After a month of scrutiny, the U.S. Government surmised that the light may have been caused by a relatively low-yield nuclear explosion. Suspicion fell on South Africa, whose haughty denials did little to quell international fears that the Pretoria government had succeeded in developing a nuclear weapon...
...real nuke or a deceptive dud? For years South Africa's many enemies, as well as its few friends, have speculated about the possibility that Pretoria's white apartheid regime might secretly be developing nuclear weapons. South Africa not only has the required technical expertise, but also possesses almost one-fifth of the world's known uranium deposits...
Defense officials cautioned that radiation tests of the atmosphere above the stretch of ocean had proved negative. Pretoria flatly denied all. ''Utter nonsense,'' snapped Atomic Energy Board Chairman Jacobus De Villiers. ''The U.S. must learn to get its facts straight,'' chided Foreign Minister Roelof (''Pik'') Botha. ''In an area that size, it could have been anyone...