Mercenaries on Trial in Luanda Mass Murders and Looting
Prosecution witnesses testified in Luanda accusing 13 white mercenaries of mass murder looting and robbery during Angola's civil war The defendants include Daniel Gearhart Gary Acker Gustavo Grillo and ten Brits led by Costas Georgiou also known as Col Callan Witnesses described executions looting of a finance office and burning currency while fearing for civilians and soldiers alike.
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Luanda
Angola
Fernando Baires
People’s Revolutionary Court
Daniel Gearhart
Kensington
FNLA
Bob Cesner
Columbus
Ohio
Gearhart
National Front For the Liberation of
Popular Movement
MPLA
Gary Acker
Sacramento
Calif
Gustavo
Grillo
Argentina
Jersey City
N.J
Costas Georgiou
Col. Callan
Alfonso Carlos
San Salvador
Promise to lift blockade silences Lebanese guns
Fighting eased after Syria agreed to lift blockades of Beirut and other cities and Christians backed a Pan Arab peacekeeping force. Police reported 45 killed and 62 wounded in Moslem Christian clashes, with 10 Palestinians killed and 11 wounded as Syrian forces shelled camps near Sidon. Syrian siege persisted around Sidon and Ar ko u b region while reports claimed Marjayoun fell. Jalloud said Syria would first lift sieges and then withdraw. Diplomatic sources noted tanks on Sidon hills shelling food ships and ships blocking Tyre and Tripoli.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Sidon
Arkoub
Israel
Marjayoun
Ibyan
Abdel Salem Jalloud
Damascus
Jalloud
Iraq
Tyre
Tripoli
Police clash with pupils over Afrikaans language order
In a Johannesburg township clash between police and about 10 000 black high school students left at least six dead and 14 injured. Police fired into the air with guns and tear gas to disperse protesters demanding schooling in their own language. Officials later recovered two policemen and two children from the scene.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
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Carlos
Georgiou
Henrique Moises
Callan
Andrew McKenzie
Moises
McKenzie
Baires
Joao Leitao
Leitao
Gustavo Grillo
America
Grillo Con
Potters
Bhamdoun
Beirut-Damascus Highway
Vacuums
Electrolux Call
J. Durfee
Melvin Ave
C.C
BCH
Patrick J. Crowley
William B. O’sullivan
Main St
Biddeford
Africa
Fathers
Evans
Schoe
SACO
Kennebunk — Wells