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...Southern Africa. In a statement released yesterday, the coalition called on Carter to "speak out publicly on what he would do as president to insure the immediate destruction of apartheid in South Africa and transfer of power into the hands of the black majority in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia...
...separate development." But he was anxious to see whether a round of sustained negotiation could end the impasse over Rhodesia, whose white minority government broke away from British rule eleven years ago. And he was particularly hopeful that if all else failed, he could achieve some measured progress on Namibia, or South West Africa, the onetime League of Nations territory that South Africa has ruled since...
...African Prime Minister John Vorster made it clear from the beginning that his discussions with Kissinger would not deal with South Africa itself. If Vorster is determined to maintain white rule at home, he is also convinced, however, that it can no longer be upheld in either Rhodesia or Namibia. By agreeing to a transition to majority rule in those territories, he believes South Africa can gain enough time for itself to build lasting ties with its black neighbors. At Zurich two weeks ago, Vorster hinted to Kissinger that he was prepared to step up the pressure on Rhodesian Prime...
...Namibia, Kissinger had reason to hope for some genuine progress. South Africa is already committed to the principle of Namibian independence, and last month a constitutional conference in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for the transfer of power. The biggest snag is that the negotiators at Windhoek did not include any representatives of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the liberation-and guerrilla -movement that is recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity as the sole representative of the Namibian people. Kissinger's first chore...
...arrival, he found the Tanzanian government less receptive to his mission than he had hoped. Student demonstrators, obviously acting with government acquiescence, greeted the Secretary with signs branding him a "cynical murderer." Later, after five hours of talks, President Nyerere told newsmen that he felt "even less hopeful" about Namibia than he had been before. But at the very least, Nyerere remarked, the mission would clarify U.S. views on southern Africa. In that sense, he added, "a shuttle of clarity is not a shuttle of failure...