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South Africa has made no secret of its intention to step up military operations against the guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and their bases in southern Angola. Last week the South African military command made good on the threat, pushing air-supported ground troops some 60 miles deep into Angola, clashing with Angolan troops, and bringing the 14-year-old bush war to a new and ominous stage. The purpose of South Africa's latest incursion: to strike at SWAPO sanctuaries and supply bases in Angola, with the possible side effect of strengthening...
...estimated 20,000 Cuban troops based in the country. South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha called Angola's charges exaggerated; had the Angolan army not "interfered," he told Parliament, the incursion would have gone unnoticed, like others before, as a routine hot-pursuit operation against SWAPO guerrillas. At least ten South African soldiers were reported killed...
...Assessing the increase in the frequency of assaults, South African counterinsurgency experts say that the ANC is stepping up the violence in order to win greater international recognition for the movement, which still does not have anything resembling the support accorded to South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrillas in the disputed territory of Namibia...
...equipped mostly with Soviet or Communist bloc weapons, is outside South Africa in the "frontline" states of Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The South African military of 86,000 on active duty and 400,000 potential reserves is already kept busy fighting a brushfire border war against SWAPO guerrillas infiltrating into Namibia. More and more frequently of late, the South Africans are employing "hot pursuit" tactics: military incursions into neighboring black-ruled countries that bring the conflict closer to conventional war. Earlier this year South African commandos crossed the frontier into Mozambique and destroyed what they claimed...
Africa People's Organization (SWAPO...