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Cover letter and report by George Houser on a two-week trip to the Western Sahara, the former colonial Spanish Sahara, under the auspice of POLISARIO, the liberation movement in the territory. Houser was the first American to go by landrover with the POLISARIO guerillas across the Western Sahara east to west, from Algeria to the Atlantic across the expanse of the Sahara desert, passing through the heart of the Moroccan-occupied areas of the country. The report discuss the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Richard Knight, Madjid Abduallah, a war zone, refugee camps, El Aaiun, a UN visiting mission in 1975, a plebiscite, the International Court of Justice, Willayas, dairas, bombing attacks, occupation forces of Morocco and Mauritania, Tindouf, Dakhla, schools, the National Hospital, wreckage of an American F-5 jet, Tifariti, napalm, tracer bullets, Bu Craa, phosphate, American military equipment, Cape Bojador, defensive positions, Semara, Moroccan planes, the State Department, a Northrup detection system, the Arms Export Control Act, the Algerian Red Crescent, The Africa Fund, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Oxfam of Belgium, Medico International, self-determination, a Westinghouse radar system, Boeing Chinook helicopters, and military equipment. • The Camps in Algeria • Who Controls the Western Sahara? • What About U.S. Policy? • A Note On Material Assistance To Western Sahara Refugees

African Activist Archive

WITH POLISARIO IN THE WESTERN SAHARA

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