Word: namibia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Five days before South Africa rejected the United Nation's peace-keeping proposals for Namibia, Richard Moose, assistant secretary of state for African Affairs sat back in his chair at the Faculty Club and termed the prognosis for a settlement this week, "guarded...
...come down to a crunch, but we've had other crunches before," Moose said last week, explaining that the South African government's greatest concern has to do with the prospects of the concentration of South-West Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO) bases in Namibia. The South African government would like to see a provision for monitoring SWAPO forces included in the U.N. plan, he added...
...South African government has ruled Namibia for more than 60 years. It agreed last year to a U.N. proposal for independence later this year. The U.N. plan calls for a cease fire and supervised elections to precede independence...
SOUTHERN AFRICA. The State Department last week expressed strong approval of South Africa's latest promise to cooperate with the U.N. plan to grant independence to Namibia. But the Administration's attempt, with British help, to bring all parties together to settle the civil war in Rhodesia seems on the verge of collapsing. The Administration's next move might well be to let the problem languish for a while in the U.N.-to let "the dust settle," says Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose...
...Tanzania, who declared that reporters who attempted to cover the campaign would be doing a "disservice" to the U.N. While that seemed in line with a dubious belief that is steadily gaining ground in Third World countries?that the world press should be tightly controlled?SWAPO leaders inside Namibia privately expressed a belief that the presence of foreign reporters gave them some protection during the campaign, though not too much. Within full view of one press group, police attacked and badly beat up a sign-carrying SWAPO demonstrator...