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Moose said the greatest U.S. leverage at this point lies in convincing the South African government that a settlement in Namibia is in its own interest. With a Namibian settlement, Moose said, the South Africans can be assured that "at least on that border they aren't going to be faced with a growing military confrontation, and these won't be the spillover effect of that into South Africa itself...
...Cuban soldiers and civilian workers (about 20,000) in President Agostinho Neto's socialist republic. Neto, reports TIME Correspondent David Wood, who accompanied McGovern to Luanda, hinted to McGovern that the Cubans will leave Angola eventually -but only when South Africa stops raiding the country's bases along the Namibian border...
...Venezuela-size territory that it has ruled since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, which the U.N. lifted in 1966. In April, under prodding by the "Big Five" Western powers (the U.S., Britain, France, Canada and West Germany), the South Africans agreed to surrender sovereignty to a new Namibian government elected through U.N. -supervised voting...
...SWAPO government in neighboring Angola facilitated the escalation of the armed conflict in Namibia and Third World opposition to continued South African rule hardened. Throughout the past 12 years, the U.S. and other Western powers have vetoed Security Council resolutions calling for economic sanctions against South Africa over the Namibian question. The U.S. and other Western powers have vetoed Security Council resolutions calling for economic sanctions against South Africa over the Namibian question. The U.S. and other Western powers have supported U.N. and World Court rulings prohibiting foreign investment in Namibia while it remains illegally occupied, but they have taken...
...territory. In the past three years, the West had embarked on a campaign to exploit Namibia's uranium resources, which represent an estimated five per cent of the total world supply. Overall, the rate of exploitation of Namibia's mineral wealth has accelerated in recent years, leading many Namibian nationalists to charge that the multinationals, uncertain of what the political future holds for them, are mortgaging the economic stability of a free Namibia by attempting to exhaust reserves and run their mining equipment into the ground...