Word: namibian
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...SWAPO, represent the population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which would leave whites and Afrikaners in the minority. This barrier, together with South Africa's insistence on keeping a buffer state between itself and Angola, has reduced negotiations for Namibian independence to fruitless, repetitive jockeyings...
...nationwide constitutional convention called the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance came up with a constitution and a president, only to lose both to the violence of dissenting SWAPO terrorists. In 1981, the Reagan Administration seized on Namibian independence as its only chance to do something constructive. In that initiative the Western allied nations, generally known as "the five," went so far as to set an August 15 deadline for accords, but missed the deadline by making Namibian independence contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola, a bow to South African tears. The same issue of Cuban troops has marked talks...
...encourage filled our living room. He told stories of his 13 children and drank only orange juice. When he visited us in the States for the first time, he was en route to New York and Washington to try to persuade diplomats that, as moderates, the conventioneers represented Namibian opinion more accurately than SWAPO could. On that trip, Carter Administration officials refused to receive his party because SWAPO had been excluded from the constitutional conference. The American press excoriated him for allying with the conference, for working within the system rather than sticking to SWAPO...
Ironically enough, the South Africans appear to have fashioned a stalling tactic out of an idea first proposed by the Reagan Administration. As part of its "constructive engagement," Washington declared that it wanted to link Namibian independence and the withdrawal of some 20,000 South African troops stationed in the territory to the pullout of an estimated 20,000 Cuban troops from neighboring Marxist-led Angola. At first the South African government said that it would "not insist" on Cuban withdrawal as part of the independence deal. But now South African Prime Minister Botha is demanding a "clear agreement...
Vice President George Bush continued to defend the notion of a Cuban-Namibian deal last week as he made a two-week tour of seven African nations. Calling the linkage "the key to the settlement," Bush declared that "we're going to stick with it." His words met with displeasure from his hosts, who included Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, leader of one of the five "frontline" states that most actively support the SWAPO guerrillas. That did not bode well for the future of Namibia, nor for the U.S. image in black Africa...