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Democracy arrived with becoming moderation in Namibia last week. The country's first internationally accepted election went off almost flawlessly. An impressive 97% of the 701,000 voters peacefully chose a National Assembly that will write a constitution and end 74 years of South African control. By denying any single party absolute power in the 72-seat assembly, the voters boosted the chance that democratic institutions will take root after the international observers go home...
SWAPO's lackluster performance stemmed partly from gruesome accounts of torture, killings and imprisonment of dissidents at SWAPO detention camps that emerged during the campaign. Nujoma was also blamed for ordering his armed troops to return last April in contravention of a U.N. cease-fire; 300 of them were killed by waiting South African forces. Nujoma tried to counteract the bad publicity with a conciliation offensive. He met with South African officials, released white doves at rallies to symbolize peace and reassured the country that SWAPO "has no intention of imposing our views on others." Now that the elections have...
David Lange walked away from New Zealand's top political job on his own terms, abruptly announcing his resignation as Prime Minister last August. Now serving as the country's Attorney General, Lange, 47, evidently thought he could terminate his marriage in similar fashion. Two weeks ago, he issued a statement that he and his wife of 21 years, Naomi, had separated. There would, he said, be no further comment...
...chance. In New Zealand last week there was practically nothing but comment. Naomi complained in a newspaper interview that her husband had developed a "fantasy thing" for his 37-year-old speechwriter, Margaret Pope. Then David's 80-year-old mother Phoebe piped up, pronouncing herself "so angry I could behead him with my crutch." For his part, Lange declared that he planned to live with Pope and joked of his mum's dismay that she was "writing a soap opera called Lays of Our Dave...
...last Wednesday night, Picasso's 1905 Au Lapin Agile was widely expected to become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. It had been put on the block at Sotheby's in New York City by heiress Linda de Roulet, whose brother John Whitney Payson had sold Van Gogh's Irises for $53.9 million two years before. It was a far better picture than the Picasso self- portrait, Yo Picasso, that had made a freakish $47.85 million last...