Word: namibia
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...into not recognizing its principal rival, UNITA. Large sums were equally invested in an elaborate propaganda mechanism to discredit its Angolan rival, claiming it nonexistent or otherwise in the pay of one foreign power or another. Attempts at unification of the movements, not just in Angola but in Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa as well, were undermined by Soviet fears of losing control over their favored sons...
Most important, Neto ordered his Cuban-led forces to halt their move south, where 5,000 South African regulars are stationed along Angola's 830-mile border with South West Africa (Namibia). The halt forestalled a clash that some feared might trigger an all-out black war to "liberate" white-ruled southern Africa. At the same time, M.P.L.A. Foreign Minister Jose Eduardo
...Africans are anxious to avoid a battle around the $300 million Cunene complex, in which they have heavily invested. The project, which is scheduled to begin producing power next year, is the key to industrial and agricultural development of the disputed territory of South West Africa (also known as Namibia). Under the original plan for Cunene, which was drawn up when Portugal ruled, relatively little of the power was intended for Angola. South African officials now say that project plans could easily be modified to benefit southern Angola...
...were the first profane words of the afternoon panel discussion, and the speech had a somewhat jarring effect. Sean Gervasi, an officer of the United Nations committee on Namibia, who had earlier opened the session rather ponderously by noting, "We are at a confluence of analysis of practice and theory," now suggested that the type of argument the group of nearly 500 had gone into that afternoon was "a luxury mirroring this hall in nature...
...foreign aid to Angolan factions--and the impact of Western financial aid which is not likely to cease with a non-intervention pact. South Africa--the major threat to Angolan sovereignty--has already shown a flagrant disregard for international agreements in its refusal to relinquish its U.N. trusteeship of Namibia. U.S. aid to Angolan factions has been CIA-controlled, and thus is no more likely than South African interference to cease as a result of an international agreement...