Word: namibia
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...grim gray cold that assaulted delegates as they left Geneva's snow-covered Palais des Nations matched their spirits. After a week of deliberations, the United Nations-sponsored conference on the future of Namibia (South West Africa) had ended in acrimony. South Africa, which has administered the former German territory since 1920, once again rejected a Western proposal to end the civil war that has wrenched mineral-rich Namibia for more than a decade. Concluded Britain's Brian Urquhart, the U.N. Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, who ran the conference: "A great opportunity was missed...
...West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which the U.N. has recognized as "the authentic representative of the Namibian people." Nujoma was ready to sign a supervised cease-fire agreement that would end fighting between 7,000 to 8,000 SWAPO rebels and 20,000 South African troops in Namibia by March 31. U.N.-supervised elections, to be held seven months later, would lead to eventual independence. Despite the U.N.'s endorsement of SWAPO, he said that his organization would accept "equal status" in the election campaign with Namibian political parties sponsored by South Africa...
Federal investigators are still trying to determine how much was raised by other Osserman ventures, like the diamond mine in Namibia. A geologist sent to Africa by the IRS learned that in two years of operation the mine had produced five diamonds the size of pinheads. Total market value: less than...
Africa. Because of his Administration's strong backing for majority rule in southern Africa, most black leaders favor Carter. They widely share Nigerian Minister of External Affairs Ishaya Audu's apprehension that a Reagan victory would "slow down the momentum of liberation movements in Namibia and South Africa for some time." Black Africans also fear that Reagan would ease U.S. pressure on South Africa over apartheid...
...Africa's future, explaining that it is possible only within a "confederal framework" comgining the banstustans--which will represent the Africans--with the all-white Republic. Saying it is on "the back burner," de Villiers similarly accepts another issue that provokes international objections: South Africa's continued occupation of Namibia and invasions of neighboring Angola...