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...article describing Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's Law School Forum speech, entitled "Mugabe Hits West For Limited Perspective," (9/24/83). Crimson editor Carla Williams defined incorrectly the dispute between Zimbabwe and the United States over the question of Namibia, a South Africa-controlled region since...
Williams described the conflict between the United States and Zimbabwe as stemming from the United States's disapproval of "Namibia's accepting aid from Marxist Cuba" Contrary to what Williams writes, Namibia does not receive aid from Cuba. It is, instead, controlled militarily and economically by South Africa...
...diplomatic front, Soares has cultivated good relations with the Portuguese-speaking African countries, especially Mozambique. He is also acting as an intermediary in the negotiations over Namibia, and has invited representatives of the former Portuguese territories in Africa to attend a summit meeting in Lisbon this winter; so far, all but Angola have accepted. In addition, Soares plans to gather in Corfu next month with the Prime Ministers of the three other socialist governments in southern Europe-Italy, Greece and Spain. He will meet with his Spanish counterpart, Felipe Gonz...
...last week, the negotiators had, as Perez de Cuellar put it, made "meaningful progress." The most significant accomplishment, perhaps, was intangible. The low-key Peruvian Secretary-General convinced the South African government that he was not biased in favor of the South-West Africa People's Organization of Namibia (SWAPO), the guerrilla group that has been fighting for Namibian independence since 1966. By winning the confidence of South Africa's leaders, Perez de Cuellar was able to persuade them to make concessions on several critical points...
South Africa had already approved much of a 1978 U.N. plan calling for a phased withdrawal of its 20,000 troops in Namibia, followed by U.N.-supervised elections leading to independence. But the negotiations became bogged down in arguments over details. Last week Prime Minister Botha broke the impasse by pledging to choose between two voting methods for Namibia's preindependence elections. He also dropped South African demands about the composition of the 7,000-man U.N. force that is to supervise the elections and the ceasefire. U.S. officials regarded the results as "much better than expected...