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Radio and television messages to the boys at the front. Small-town burials of flag-draped coffins. Posthumous awards for valor. These are daily reminders of South Africa 's seemingly endless, distant bush war, which has droned on for 14 years. The battleground is Namibia (South West Africa), which South Africa has controlled since 1920. A flurry of hope for a negotiated cease-fire was shattered in Geneva last month when a United Nations conference on Namibia's future broke down. Reason: South Africa refused to risk an independent government led by the Marxist-oriented South West Africa...
...order to up its uraniun production figures, South Africa's government will have to expand its military presence--now 70,000 troops--in neighboring Namibia, where South Africa, Britain, and a number of more discreet governments get their uranium in defiance of United Nations sanctions. Not only does uranium mining perpetuate South Africa's domination of Namibia, it continues to be a means for oppressing Blacks at home...
...coincidence that the Rossing mine of Namibia--South Africa's major source of production--is now the largest uranium strip mine in the world. Nor is it a coincidence that Rossing's predecessor in this dubiously prestigious position was the Jackpile Mine at Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico--operated by Anaconda for the Atomic Energy Commission, and now by ARCO (the parent) for anyone who wants uranium. As Morton points out, "There is a relation between racism and uranium...
...there is abundant evidence, the Soviets have indirectly helped terrorist organizations through surrogates such as Libya and Cuba. But Dyess said Haig actually was using the word terrorism rather loosely to include Soviet support of "national liberation movements" and propaganda advocating "armed struggle," as hi El Salvador and Namibia. All of this can be broadly defined as terrorism, Dyess claimed, be cause it "creates a climate in which terrorism flourishes." Despite Dyess's attempt to soften Haig's accusation, it set off a sharp debate. Said Georgetown University Professor Walter Laqueur, an expert on terrorism: "I sympathize with...
...even with Nujoma's concessions, the South African-led Namibian delegation rejected the cease-fire proposal on the ground that the U.N. was biased toward SWAPO. Dirk Mudge, chairman of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, the multiracial coalition that currently dominates Namibia's Pretoria-backed administration, contended that a cease-fire now would be premature. In fact, what really worried Mudge and the South Africans was that SWAPO would defeat the Turnhalle Alliance in a free and fair election...