Word: namibia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department, the CIA and the more hawkish members of Congress have been so utterly deceived by Savimbi. However, there is a real reason for the ostensibly plausible yet strategically reckless rationalization for propping up the new interventionist cause celebre: defense of South African hegemony over mineralrich Namibia...
...first of these is the Unwilling Academic, a bespectacled, goat-voiced man in his 30s who has spent the last nine years of his life in Namibia cheerfully studying gibbon dung. As is evident in his shaking hands and uncertain style, only the twin prospects of starvation and separation from his beloved droppings has forced him onto the stage...
Botha also made a new offer of statehood for Namibia, proposing an August 1 target date for starting moves toward the territory's independence. He made it conditional on a withdrawal of Cuban troops from neighboring Angola...
...year-old Afrikaner president offered to implement a U.N. resolution granting independence to Namibia if the Cubans left Angola. Namibia, or South-West Africa, is under South African administration and is a target of guerrillas operating from Angola...
Botha said Namibia's 1 million people "have waited long enough for independence," a delay he claimed "cannot be laid at South Africa's door...