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...peacekeeping force to monitor a cease-fire in the 14-year-old guerrilla war between the insurgent South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and South African forces. This was to have been followed by U. N.-supervised elections for a national assembly that would write a new Namibian constitution...
South Africa also clashed with these same two countries last week, but rather more violently, sending bombers deep into Angola to attack Namibian rebel bases and engaging in its second border clash in a week with Mozambican troops. Despite sympathy between the new U.S. government and South Africa on a number of issues, the Reagan Administration indicated it is not ready to forge closer ties with Pretoria. It emphasized last week that four South African military officials, whose visits to the U.S. have long been severely restricted, had been given visas "inadvertently" for a trip they made to Washington this...
...South African command insists that it is succeeding in its drive to "win the hearts and minds" of the Namibian people. The claim is a sardonic reminder of Viet Nam, and, indeed, the parallels in this war do not stop there. The 20,000 troops of the South African Defense Force (SADF) vastly outnumber the 8,000-odd SWAPO guerrillas. The SWAPO forces, armed with Soviet-made rifles and light artillery, are no match for the mechanized, often airborne South African troops. And, like the Cambodia-based Viet Cong a decade ago, SWAPO conducts its raids from sanctuaries-this time...
...participant in the talks was Sam Nujoma, president of the insurgent, Marxist-oriented South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which the U.N. has recognized as "the authentic representative of the Namibian people." Nujoma was ready to sign a supervised cease-fire agreement that would end fighting between 7,000 to 8,000 SWAPO rebels and 20,000 South African troops in Namibia by March 31. U.N.-supervised elections, to be held seven months later, would lead to eventual independence. Despite the U.N.'s endorsement of SWAPO, he said that his organization would accept "equal status...
...even with Nujoma's concessions, the South African-led Namibian delegation rejected the cease-fire proposal on the ground that the U.N. was biased toward SWAPO. Dirk Mudge, chairman of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, the multiracial coalition that currently dominates Namibia's Pretoria-backed administration, contended that a cease-fire now would be premature. In fact, what really worried Mudge and the South Africans was that SWAPO would defeat the Turnhalle Alliance in a free and fair election...