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...have wanted to know as little as possible about the matter. Lord Home, Foreign Secretary under Heath, explains a bit lamely that the oil sanction issue "was never discussed." The Tories' see-no-evil, hear-no-evil policy apparently helped prompt the oil companies to drop the oil-swapping sham and return to direct shipments through Lourenço Marques. Not until a newly independent Mozambican government closed that door in 1976 did the trade stop. Today Rhodesia gets its oil directly from South Africa's supplies...
Instead, South Africa stated plans to grant independence on its own terms to the land it has occupied and governed in defiance of the U.N. since 1966. Those terms will inevitably severely restrict campaign freedoms and guide Namibia into a sham confederation of tribal groupings whose weakness will guarantee the continued economic and political dominance of the whites who make up 10 per cent of the territory's population. The Southwest Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), the Namibian freedom-fighting group that has led the struggle for independence for 12 years, has justly refused to participate in such an election...
...government merely would insure continued political and economic dominance by the whites in the territory, who currently enjoy one of the world's highest standards of living. With these realities in mind, SWAPO has already announced plans to intensify its armed struggle against South Africa and Pretoria's sham Namibian government. Under current circumstances, this armed struggle clearly must continue...
...April the SEC charged Page with making sham deals overseas to hide various payoffs in connection with the sale of four Gulfstreams to Saudi Arabian Airlines between 1975 and 1977 and the 1975 sale of a Gulfstream to Morocco. The total unaccounted-for funds, says the commission: $5 million...
...legalistic kiss and tell, but Patty Hearst means business. Challenging the bank robbery sentence that she is now serving, Hearst's new Attorney, George C. Martinez, charged that Attorney F. Lee Bailey's "ineffective counsel" reduced her 1976 trial to "a mockery, a farce and a sham." In a nine-page affidavit filed in the San Francisco U.S. District Court...