Word: rhodesian
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...loan to African nations other than Angola. Troops provided by Havana form part of President Sékou Touré's bodyguard in Guinea. Cuban bureaucrats supervise government operations in both Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. In Tanzania, 500 Cubans are reportedly training guerrillas to harass the Rhodesian government. In the Congo (Brazzaville), 150 others form a rear echelon for Angola; in Guinea-Bissau, says a grateful government spokesman, "they showed us how to make the terrain work for us and against the Portuguese...
...student polytechnical institute, and Nigeria, despite its strong ties to the West, has turned to the U.S.S.R. for warplanes and has sent 700 students to study in Soviet universities. Zambia too has gone to the Soviets for arms, as has Sierra Leone. Moscow is arming Rhodesian black insurgents based in Tanzania and Mozambique and members of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which is fighting against South Africa's control of South West Africa (Namibia...
...newly independent Angola (see THE WORLD) was a perilous task for TIME'S Salisbury-based stringer (part-time correspondent) Reg Shay and Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs. Shay had to leave the new West African nation last week when a Luanda official decided he might be "a CIA Rhodesian spy." Griggs has covered the independence of nine other former colonies since his first African assignment 16 years ago, so he knew just what to do when soldiers began carrying out predawn identity checks at his hotel. "When the first 4 a.m. knock came, I obeyed a longstanding rule...
...than the total for the entire 13-year guerrilla war for independence. Last week combined F.N.L.A.-UNITA units were closing in on Luanda. To the south, a 1,200-man F.N.L.A.-UNITA force under the command of M.P.L.A. Defector Daniel Chipenda and spearheaded by 150 Portuguese, South African and Rhodesian mercenaries captured the tactically critical towns of Benguela and Lobito. Though the mechanized troops are still 400 miles from Luanda, there were few obstacles left between them and the capital. North of Luanda, meanwhile, F.N.L.A. forces were within 18 miles of the city and scarcely a mortar...
This neutral belt is essential to South African stability, for without such a protective wall it could not avoid the kind of guerilla activity which threatens to topple Ian Smith's Rhodesian government. Now that a black government looks inevitable in Zimbabwe--the black nationalist name for Rhodesia--Vorster must insure that the new government will respect South Africa's boundaries, and that it will refuse to allow guerilla fighters to use Zimbabwe as a base for maneuvers into South Africa. Zambia has already said it will not permit guerilla activity within its borders, but it is not yet clear...