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...death toll rises steadily as the bloody civil war in Rhodesia grinds on, with little hope for an early settlement. Last week black nationalist guerrillas attacked a convoy of 50 vehicles at Kariba, 140 miles north of Salisbury. A bus driver and three young white girls died from bullet wounds; 16 other passengers were wounded. Later, guerrillas attacked and set fire to a tiny village in the Zwimba Tribal Trust Land, killing 17 of its 22 black inhabitants...
...history -was part of a rising tide of violence that threatens to engulf the breakaway British colony. Only days after Elim, two German Jesuits were killed by black nationalist guerrillas at St. Rupert's Mission, 90 miles west of Salisbury, bringing the black and white civilian death toll to almost 600 so far this year. The guerrillas have also suffered losses-not all of them in raids and counterattacks by the Rhodesian army. In nearby Zambia, a top lieutenant to Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders of the Patriotic Front, was killed by a land mine last week...
Competition, too, has taken its toll...
...smooth-working machine, dominated play through much of the game, but Fillol's brilliant play in goal kept his squad in the game long enough for them to come back in the two 15-minute overtime periods. By that point, the Dutch game of "total football" had taken its toll on the defenders, who were visibly tired and generally outclassed...
...Palestinian camp at Aaqbiye, six miles south of Sidon. The Israelis claimed that the attack was aimed at a terrorist training camp; sources in Lebanon suspected that the raid was retaliation for the recent bombing of a bus in Jerusalem, in which six people were killed. Death toll in the attack: five Palestinian soldiers, at least six Lebanese civilians, and two Israelis...