3-20-96. TWP (privatizing the global NatSec frankenstein): "South Africa Weighs Reining In Peddlers of Mercenary Ex-Soldiers." In this once highly militarized society, the transition from white-minority rule produced unemployed commandos and spies suddenly without a cause. So, controversial military and intelligence units are selling their skills to the rest of Africa and beyond. Executive Outcomes, the best known and apparently largest of firms offering overt and covert security services, says the company's services are in great demand. It operates within a murky network of other international companies that specialize in oil drilling, diamond mining and landmine removal. The firm also has been reported to hire former commandos of Britain's SAS and the Selous Scouts of the old white-ruled Rhodesia, as well as military technicians from the former Soviet Union. JEK_hyd