The World - News from Dec. 10, 1986

An undercover operation has sent arms to South Africa from the United States and Europe in defiance of U.S. anti-apartheid laws and a U.N. embargo, a London newspaper reported. The Independent, a politically neutral and relatively new daily, said the arms almost certainly were part of covert aid from Washington destined for guerrillas of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, which is fighting Angola’s Marxist government. Both the United States and South Africa support the UNITA guerrillas. Among the arms reported shipped to South Africa were nearly 20 tons of rocket-launching equipment sent from Switzerland.