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...growing sense in diplomatic circles that the Reagan Administration's controversial policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa in solving problems in that region is in deep trouble, very possibly of Washington's making. As recently as August, the US.'s highly publicized efforts to win Namibian independence by joining France, Britain, West Germany and Canada in negotiations, while remaining friendly to South Africa, appeared to be on the verge of success. Now, despite Washington's assertions to the contrary, the initiative appears to have virtually collapsed. Says John Barratt, director-general of the Johannesburg-based...
...past month the South Africans have destroyed at least two and possibly three forward SWAPO bases in Angola. In Tripoli, Angolan Foreign Minister Paulo Jorge charged that a large-scale South African invasion of his country had been under way since Aug. 2. Reports from Windhoek, the Namibian capital, tended to corroborate Jorge's accusation...
Even by the efficient standards of the South African military, the operation was brutal. After dawn, 43 heavily armed troops of South Africa's seasoned, mostly black 32nd Battalion were airlifted across the Namibian border into the rocky terrain of the Cambeno valley, some 15 miles away in the southwestern corner of Angola. Then, supported by helicopter gunships, they destroyed a secret, unfortified supply base manned by an estimated 250 guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The toll: 201 guerrillas killed. Only three South African soldiers were lost...
...South African raid came at an awkward moment for the five Western "contact states"-the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Canada-that began talks in London last week to iron out final problems in the first phase of a settlement that would guarantee Namibian independence. The main stumbling block: SWAPO'S reluctance to go along with complex election procedures designed to protect Namibia's 90,000 whites (out of a population of 1 million...
...From your perspective, has significant progress been made toward Namibian independence...