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...lone vote in the U.N. Security Council last week against condemning South Africa's massive search-and-destroy mission in Angola. The assault was aimed at guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), who are fighting for the independence of Namibia, a territory administered by South Africa...
...member of a five-nation Western "contact group" seeking a U.N.-sponsored Namibia settlement. The other four-Britain, France, West Germany and Canada-fear that U.S. willingness to tolerate South Africa's provocative policies will only lead to delay, thus strengthening Soviet influence in the region. Last January South Africa withdrew its approval of a U.N.-sponsored plan for a cease-fire and for supervised free elections in Namibia, largely for fear that SWAPO would emerge victorious. Last week Secretary of State Alexander Haig revealed that Pretoria is again ready to go along with the U.N. plan, provided certain...
...future of Namibia has become a touchstone of Western good faith in black Africa. Any association of the U.S. with Pretoria's Namibia policies will be seen by black Africa as a deeper identification with a regime that suppresses a black majority; it could also encourage South Africa to resist even minor reforms of apartheid. Says Donald McHenry...
With remnants of the South African force still in Angola by week's end, the Luanda government threatened to appeal for help to expel them forcibly. Though the U.S. reversed an earlier pronouncement that it would boycott a planned U.N. special session on Namibia, it was determined to maintain a neutral role. Explained a U.S. official: "We are prepared to take the heat and hope that by taking heat we might facilitate compromises in the long run," meaning that support to South Africa now might translate into a settlement with Pretoria on Namibia later. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported...
...raid drew strong international condemnation-except from the U.S. France, Britain, West Germany and Canada, who with the U.S. have taken a leading role in trying to forge a United Nations-sponsored Namibia settlement, called for an immediate South African withdrawal. The U.S., for its part, issued a statement saying that the new South African action "must be understood in its full context" of the struggle against SWAPO and emphasized the "urgent" need for a Namibia solution. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim cut short a vacation in his native Austria and hastily returned to New York to prepare...