Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month a constitutional conference in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for the transfer of power. The biggest snag is that the negotiators at Windhoek did not include any representatives of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the liberation-and guerrilla -movement that is recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity as the sole representative of the Namibian people. Kissinger's first chore was to try to get South Africa and SWAPO together over the same conference table, perhaps in Geneva...
Kissinger's efforts on behalf of southern Africa have come none too soon-and, some fear, may be too late. Even as he conferred with Vorster last week, guerrilla raids continued in Rhodesia and Namibia (or South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations-mandated territory that South Africa has ruled since 1920. Across South Africa itself, a wave of rioting, looting and arson sputtered on in the nation's non-white urban ghettos for the sixth straight week...
...bottom-line issue that alone made the meeting worthwhile. South Africa had already agreed to Namibian independence by Dec. 31,1978, under a multiracial government. Vorster still refused to deal directly with the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia's main liberation (and guerrilla) movement. But he hinted that SWAPO could be invited to the round-table conference-now under way at Windhoek, the Namibian capital -by conference delegates. He also indicated that South Africa might be willing to move Namibia's independence date forward to Dec. 31,1977. In return, Vorster would insist that...
...Privately, Vorster is said to believe Smith (a former R.A.F. pilot who Vorster feels is "refighting the Battle of Britain") must become more flexible. Vorster is prepared to "point out alternatives and offer advice" to the hardheaded Smith, but in return he insists that Kissinger must somehow persuade the guerrilla groups to ease up in their attacks on Rhodesia-hardly a simple task...
...among the three principal Rhodesian liberation movements, which have long been feuding, but failed once again. In truth, the disunity among Rhodesian blacks is almost as big an impediment to majority rule as Ian Smith's intransigence. In the end the five presidents could only agree that the guerrilla war should be "intensified," but, on the other hand, they had no objection to a Kissinger shuttle in pursuit of peace...