Word: shaba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UNlTA's support: It is not true to say that support comes largely from South Africa. After the invasion of Shaba province in Zaïre [which was launched by Katangan exiles from Angolan territory in 1978], independent African countries realized that the Russians and Cubans will not be content with Angola. From that point, we started to get substantial support from some African countries, but they can't say it openly, of course. Second, we are getting substantial support from Arab countries. Obviously I can't say which ones...
...black nationalist Patriotic Front. But the larger issue that bothered everyone in Khartoum was the proper African response to military and political incursions by both East and West, capped by the French and Belgian effort to put down a rebellion in Zaïre's mine-rich Shaba region...
Peking's leaders have also reinforced their oft-expressed warnings of Soviet imperialist ambitions in the Third World with some dramatic diplomatic gestures. Following the French and Belgian military intervention in Zaïre last May, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua flew into Kinshasa. Touring Shaba region with Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko, Huang declared that the Katangese invaders had been "Soviet-Cuban mercenaries." Since then Keng Piao has carried China's admonitory message to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as to the Caribbean. The indefatigable Vice Premier has scheduled visits for next...
...people furious as quickly as possible, Young went on to suggest (without citing any evidence) that supporters of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, rather than black nationalist guerrillas, had massacred Christian missionaries at Elim last month and that France had intervened in the Katangese invasion of Zaire's Shaba province primarily for economic motives...
Neto and Castro are apparently determined to see that there will be no Shaba III in the near future. As veterans of the Shaba invasion cross the border back into Angola, they are being intercepted by Neto's troops and stripped of their weapons. In a message released through the Angolan press and radio, Neto had promised last month to disarm the returning Katangese and relocate their refugee camps further from the Zaïrian border...