Word: namibia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his 16-day, eight-nation tour of Western Europe, which concluded last week, South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha emphasized his eagerness to resolve the issue of Namibia, the South West African territory that his nation has ruled for decades in defiance of the United Nations. In Bonn and London, Botha agreed to remove his troops from the area on condition that five West European nations take over at their own expense and, at the same time, that Cuba withdraw its forces from neighboring Angola. In Zurich, Botha guaranteed "safe passage" for Sam Nujoma, head of the nationalist South...
Meanwhile, back in Namibia, scores of camouflaged policemen were stealing up on a group of 37 SWAPO leaders and supporters enjoying a barbecue. All 37 were jailed without charge, then released from custody just as abruptly four days later. Were Botha and his government embarrassed by the timing of the arrests? "Yes," snapped a government official in Pretoria. "Next question...
...power to the Asian and "colored" (mixed-race) minorities, though none to the 21-million black majority. He has reduced the hostilities be tween South Africa and the black-ruled states of Mozambique and Angola. Finally, Botha has said he is prepared under certain conditions to give independence to Namibia, a territory that South Africa governs in violation of United Nations resolutions...
DIED. Dennis Keogh, 44, career U.S. State Department official, and Lieut. Colonel Kenneth Crabtree, 45; in a terrorist bomb explosion at a gas station just outside Oshakati, Namibia. Both were members of a U.S. liaison team monitoring the cease-fire in Namibia. South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrillas were blamed by South African officials for the attack, but denied the charge...
...true that I raised that subject often. Cuban troops in Ethiopia were the praetorian guard of a regime whose policy had caused inestimable suffering. Cuban troops in Angola were the chief impediment to a settlement that might bring peace to that country and independence to neighboring Namibia. But it was the role of Cuba in the insurgency in El Salvador that engaged our attention in the most urgent manner...