A day filled with turmoil in the world, this June 27th in 1980. Starting with news from Angola.
Angola reported that South Africa raided across its border for the second time this month, killing 370 men, women and children. Angola’s ambassador asked the United Nations to impose “total sanctions” against the white-ruled nation. “They have destroyed vehicles, bridges, houses. They have destroyed livestock, depriving the remaining populace of food,” Ambassador Elisio de Figueiredo told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council called at Angola’s request.
“In the days ahead they will kill many more barefoot children, and women tilling the land.” South African television and the official East German news agency ADN quoted reports from Angola that 3,000 South African soldiers had invaded southern Angola from Southwest Africa and killed about 300 Angolans. A South African Defense Department spokesman in Pretoria declined comment.
Meanwhile, the Carter administration argued that the United States should sell India enriched uranium to counter Soviet influence there. But the House Foreign Affairs Committee mounted a move to block the controversial deal. Rep. Jonathan Bingham, (Dem. N.Y.) introduced a compromise backed by at least 25 of the panel’s 34 members that would bar the proposed sale of 38 tons of enriched uranium but allow the administration to sell U.S.-made spare parts for India’s nuclear reactors. Bingham said his proposal softer than another one that would block the entire transaction is intended “as a gesture of good will toward India” But be added, “The United States must draw the line here and now until India commits itself to what nearly 110 nations already have: Comprehensive international safeguards and unequivocal peaceful-use guarantees.” There was no immediate vote on the resolution.
And Vietnamese troops this day were fighting two different anti-Hanoi guerilla groups inside Kampuchea near the Thai border, Thai military sources said. But fighting had tapered off along the 60-kilometre stretch north of the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet which has been the scene of a Vietnamese incursion. The sources said Vietnamese troops were fighting guerillas of toppled Premier Pol Pot in the Malai Hills about 25 kilometres to the south-east of the border town. Clashes also continued between anti-communist “Free Khmer” soldiers and the Vietnamese in the northern Kampuchean province of Oddar Mean Chey, the sources said. The Supreme Military Command reported that a third clash took place yesterday in another area along the border the southeastern Thai province of Trad where Thai patrols for the second day exchanged fire with the Vietnamese.
And while news from Angola was still coming in – and news from Mt.St. Helens was back in the news, that’s just a little of what happened on this June 27, 1980 as reported by The CBS World News Roundup.
