Complex sentence: In October of that year they received eight T-55 tanks from South Africa, confiscated from a French ship, the "Astor", which had been transporting a heavy weapons consignment from Libya for Idi Amin in Uganda.
Split into simpler sentences: In October of that year they received eight T-55 tanks from South Africa. These tanks were confiscated from a French ship, the "Astor", which had been transporting a heavy weapons consignment from Libya for Idi Amin in Uganda.