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...scandal widened days later, when Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha admitted that contrary to previous denials, South Africa had secretly spent more than $36 million to keep the leftist South West Africa People's Organization from winning a commanding victory in pre-independence elections in neighboring Namibia in 1989. Pretoria's support of at least seven parties opposed to SWAPO may have prevented the organization from gaining the two- thirds majority it needed to introduce a socialist constitution...
...UNITED NATIONS. The organization, long derided as tangential at best, was quietly making a comeback by mediating settlements in such trouble spots as Namibia and Angola. In the gulf crisis it has functioned at long last as its creators hoped it would 45 years ago, focusing world condemnation on an aggressor, authorizing a global embargo and even voting to permit the use of force to back up that squeeze. The Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order. The U.N. will continue to be effective, however, only so long...
...spent nine years ago. Moreover, nearly half of all aid is allocated to the so-called Big Five -- Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey and the Philippines -- mostly to fulfill old commitments. That leaves pitifully little to further such new goals as nurturing fledgling allies. Bush's request for aid to % Namibia, a new African democracy, is an all-but-invisible half a million dollars. Administration officials last year even went hat in hand to Japan and Western Europe to solicit aid for some South American countries that Washington is trying to wean away from economic dependence on the drug trade...
...raising the ante in what will be hard and drawn-out negotiations," said an American diplomat in Moscow. "Lithuania has a united population on the issue of independence, and I don't think they'll back down. And Moscow has pretty much ruled out force." At independence ceremonies in Namibia last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said, "We are against the use of force in any region, and we are particularly against the ^ use of force domestically...
...level U.S. official and black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela -- and it was not quite all U.S. Secretary of State James Baker could have hoped for. After a 35-minute session last Wednesday at Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers. Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not think there has been any fundamental change in the policy...