Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claimed that only a refugee camp had been hit, the South Africans said they had badly damaged the SWAPO military headquarters at Cassinga, captured or destroyed large supplies of ammunition and wiped out several guerrilla posts near the border. Five of their men were killed in the twelve-hour raid, South African officials reported, while "large losses" were inflicted on the guerrillas...
Ostensibly aimed at a South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) camp near Cassinga, Angola, the raid was the Vorster regime's brutal retaliation for SWAPO's rejection last month of a South African-endorsed independence plan for South West Africa. SWAPO rejected the plan, sponsored by the United States, Great Britain, France, West Germany and Canada, because it allowed South Africa to keep up to 2,000 troops in South West Africa until new elections could be held, and because it left Walvis Bay, Namibia's strategically-important deep-water port, under South African domination until further negotiations...
...support SWAPO's struggle against the Vorster regime, and we join the U.N. Security Council's unanimous condemnation of South Africa for the raid. The belligerence of the South African minority government underlines the complicity of organizations, such as Harvard University, that continue to support the Vorster regime and refuse to join in the struggle against apartheid...
...howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic. A little later there is a candlelit attempt to summon Dean via ouija board, which spills over into a raid on a lover's lane to frighten non believing neckers into joining the mourning. The girl who most deeply shares Jimmy J.'s excessive regard for Dean is horribly burned when the candle she is carrying ignites her costume. In the end, she has retreated into a psychopathic...
...briefcase to Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe, who used them to commit suicide after the dramatic rescue last October of Lufthansa passengers held hostage in Mogadishu, Somalia. Siegfried Haag awaits trial in a Bochum prison on charges of carrying weapons to terrorists and of planning a 1975 raid on the West German embassy in Stockholm in which three were killed and 30 wounded...