Lesotho Fighting update

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(22 Sep 1998) T/I: 10:54:35 • • • South African troops sent to restore stability to Lesotho on Tuesday (22/9) met fierce resistance from soldiers and bitter opposition from anti-government protesters. By nightfall, the South Africans were still engaged in a raging battle with Lesotho soldiers for control of the Makonyane military base outside Maseru, with the local troops well • entrenched on the hillside where the barracks is sited. • • SHOWS: • • MASERU, LESOTHO - 22/09 • • 00.00 ws troops in tanks approaching • 00.10 ms people demonstrating • 00.13 ms tank driving in to thick of crowds • 00.19 ms man lying in front of row of tanks • 00.25 ws line of troops approaching • 00.29 ms pull out from gate with rebels on other side, soldiers on camera side • 00.35 cu rebel on other side aiming at South African troops • 00.38 ms soldier standing against wall, fires • 00.40 ms tank smashes into van • 00.45 ms South African troops arrest Lesotho troops, who put their hands up • 00.52 SOT Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Acting South African President in English: This I would like to stress is an SADC intervention and not a South African operation • 01.02 ms youths looting a shop • 01.06 ws high shot of people running away with their possessions • 01.09 ms explosion in shop • 01.12 cu fire raging • 01.14 ws man running across the street with fire hydrant • 01.17 ws aerial shot of burning factory • 01.22 ws aerial shot burning buildings • • 01.26 Vision Ends • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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