Word: kapuuo
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...South African officials charged that SWAPO had killed the black leader as part of an assassination campaign, and alluded to a "captured document" that purportedly included plans to kill opposition black leaders in Namibia. In Zambia last week, SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma, who at one time studied English under Kapuuo, denied that his organization had had anything to do with the killing. The murder, he suggested, might well have been the work of South African provocateurs...
...conference reached a measured compromise. After almost a year of discussion, the twelve different ethnic groups in the territory -eight black, one white and three of mixed race-settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for Namibian independence. A multiracial interim government-probably to be headed by Clemens Kapuuo, a Herero tribal chief, and Dirk Mudge, a white rancher-will draft a constitution, organize elections and oversee the transfer of power. The non-white majority at the conference had pressed for independence by next June 30, but in the end agreed to wait an extra 18 months in return...