Word: namibia
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Abramoff was undaunted. Despite losing major studio distribution and even enduring boycotts for having filmed in Namibia, which was administered during the Apartheid-era by South Africa?whose government is reported to have provided extras and military hardware?he produced not only that movie, but also its even lousier sequel, Red Scorpion 2. Still, politics, not movies, remained Abramoff's real passion, and as it happened, in 1994 a new kind of opportunity had arisen in Washington for a brash and entrepreneurial conservative who had the right connections...
...problems that still trouble post-colonial African states. The same British were responsible for a gulag of 1.5 million Kenyans and the murder of hundreds of thousands well into the United Nations era. His other righteous liberators were even worse: the Germans massacred 90 percent of Herero people in Namibia, the Belgians 40 percent of Congo’s pre-colonial population, and the Dutch setting up apartheid in South Africa. To dismiss concerns about such a history as mere “rambling” suggests more about his attitude than his knowledge...
...arrived. The Botha government, even if it has revised its private notion of the national destiny, could have second thoughts. Certainly it will have trouble selling the idea of reform to rightwing South Africans. On previous occasions, South Africa has appeared ready to grant independence to Namibia, the territory also known as South West Africa, which Pretoria has ruled since 1920. Each time, however, the government has reconsidered: three months ago, it installed in Namibia a "transition" government that Pretoria can effectively control...
...over South Africa's practices, the Botha government is also trying to present a conciliatory foreign policy. First, it announced last week that it would comply with a 14-month-old, U.S.-brokered agreement and withdraw its troops from Angola. Then, appearing before Parliament, Botha agreed to allow neighboring Namibia's internal political organizations, both black and white, to form an interim administration with a bill of rights and a constitutional court and council. Though not amounting to full self-government, that generous-seeming offer aroused fears in the West that South Africa, which has ruled Namibia in defiance...
...policy adjustment, which has been building for some months, began with a series of South African actions of which the Administration disapproved. There was the failure of U.S.-supported efforts to secure the independence of Namibia, the territory also known as South West Africa, which South Africa has ruled since 1920, originally under a League of Nations mandate. The Administration had hoped to arrange for Namibian independence in exchange for the removal of Cuban troops from Angola, but that effort at "linkage" failed, in large part because of South Africa's reluctance to go along with it. Later there...