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Kissinger's efforts on behalf of southern Africa have come none too soon-and, some fear, may be too late. Even as he conferred with Vorster last week, guerrilla raids continued in Rhodesia and Namibia (or South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations-mandated territory that South Africa has ruled since 1920. Across South Africa itself, a wave of rioting, looting and arson sputtered on in the nation's non-white urban ghettos for the sixth straight week...
...were hosts) and lunch (given by the Americans) and in between, the two leaders talked for a total of 13 hours, reviewing the southern African situation in considerable detail. Though neither was prepared to disclose the substance of the talks, it is known that the chief subjects discussed were Namibia and Rhodesia...
...NAMIBIA. This was the easier one-the bottom-line issue that alone made the meeting worthwhile. South Africa had already agreed to Namibian independence by Dec. 31,1978, under a multiracial government. Vorster still refused to deal directly with the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia's main liberation (and guerrilla) movement. But he hinted that SWAPO could be invited to the round-table conference-now under way at Windhoek, the Namibian capital -by conference delegates. He also indicated that South Africa might be willing to move Namibia's independence date forward...
...headquarters in Zambia, from which his organization wages a guerrilla war in northern Namibia, SWAPO President Sam Nujoma announced that he might be willing to talk. The non-whites at the Windhoek conference now hope to install an interim government by next June 30 and will invite SWAPO to take part...
...after all, under severe pressure at the moment. At home, he has been hurt by the current turmoil. To the north, he is challenged by Marxist regimes in Angola and Mozambique. His strategy now is to reduce interracial pressure on South Africa by finding political solutions in Rhodesia and Namibia-but in such a way that his country's security is not jeopardized. In so doing, he hopes to buy South Africa enough time to fashion a genuine détente with black Africa...