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Vorster also announced that South Africa has rejected Western diplomatic efforts to mediate a transition to independence for Namibia, the South-West Africa territory South Africa has occupied in defiance of U.N. rulings since...
SWAPO, which most observers agree commands the support of the majority of blacks in Namibia, has consistently refused to participate in elections held under South African supervision...
Reading from a prepared statement, Vorster said yesterday, "The South African government does not wish to close doors" to further negotiations with the United Nations and the western powers on the Namibia question...
Nevertheless, an air of cautious optimism prevailed in Washington last week. Buoyed by the recent agreement between Zaire and Angola to re-establish formal relations and cease their border fighting, U.S. officials are still hoping that a peaceful solution in Namibia could have some direct influence in pointing the way to a resolution of the Rhodesian crisis. "The situation is just about as good as could be expected," a State Department specialist remarked last week. "In fact, we've made more progress than we thought possible 15 months ago." Those who favor an end to the strife in Namibia...
...thing about all this controversy. It's made a lot of people start to think a lot more seriously about us," So says J.J.J. Wilken, the town clerk and unofficial historian of the 374-sq.-mi. territory of Walvis Bay. Until international attention focused on independence for Namibia, few people had much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch...