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AFTER MORE than three decades of debates, resolutions, and narrowly avoided confrontations, the international conflict over the political status of Namibia has finally reached a time of hard, no-nonsense decisions. Last week, an ailing John Vorster announced his resignation as South African Prime Minister and, as his final act in office, backed out on the tentative agreement Pretoria and Namibian nationalists made in July to allow United Nations military and civilian personnel to supervise the election of an independent Namibian government...
...other Western powers have supported U.N. and World Court rulings prohibiting foreign investment in Namibia while it remains illegally occupied, but they have taken no steps to enforce these prohibitions against their own companies. And thus, with the U.S. leading the pack, the five Western powers who attempted to act as a go-between for SWAPO and South Africa continue to account for practically 100 per cent of the foreign investment in the land...
...broken agreement as a victory for Western diplomacy over Communist support of armed struggle as a means of securing justice in Southern Africa. Overlooked amid all the self-congratulation has been the self-interested nature of the Western diplomatic role: the five NATO powers who attempted to act as honest brokers between SWAPO and Pretoria stand to gain the most by securing a peaceful transition to independence. These countries' corporations mine and market the vast stores of precious minerals in Namibia. And for 12 years, these countries, led by the U.S., did the most to undercut U.N. efforts to loosen...
...amount of legal or diplomatic hairsplitting can obscure where international justice now lies. The world community cannot leave this latest South African outrage unchallenged. The Security Council, led by the Western powers, must act swiftly to adopt Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's proposal for U.N.-supervised elections and condemn South Africa's intransigence. If South Africa still refuses to back down and accept the U.N. plan, the U.N. must declare South Africa an immediate threat to international peace and enact harsh economic sanctions against the apartheid state, including a potentially devastating oil embargo...
...asking for a vote of confidence from alumni," Rosovsky said, adding, "to support us is a positive act of self-interest" which benefits the country...