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...generous-seeming offer aroused fears in the West that South Africa, which has ruled Namibia in defiance of the United Nations for almost two decades, might be trying to dodge international demands for a pullout from the region by attempting to reach an under-the-table agreement with its Namibian opposition...
...actions of which the Administration disapproved. There was the failure of U.S.-supported efforts to secure the independence of Namibia, the territory also known as South West Africa, which South Africa has ruled since 1920, originally under a League of Nations mandate. The Administration had hoped to arrange for Namibian independence in exchange for the removal of Cuban troops from Angola, but that effort at "linkage" failed, in large part because of South Africa's reluctance to go along with it. Later there was Pretoria's imposition of an appointed interim government in Windhoek, the Namibian capital. Washington has also...
...group of scientists working for the Namibian government recommended not accepting genetically modified U.S. corn because the long-term health effects of eating it have not been determined. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has said the subsequent decision in Namibia to refuse genetically modified U.S. corn leaves 2.9 million people without proper nutrition and at risk of starvation. The real reasons for the rejection, however, are not about health but about economics. Although humans have bred and crossed agricultural crops for thousands of years to optimize their genes for human benefit, the “unnatural?...
...Roks, the principal of a special school for foreign-born children in Rotterdam's Spangen neighborhood, will likely feel the sting of any tougher government line. Every year, the city takes in 1,000 new pupils from abroad; those who do badly on a state-administered intelligence test - from Namibian child soldiers and destitute Angolese to poor kids from the mountains of Morocco - come to Roks' school. But the Fortuyn effect has already almost halved the rate of asylum seekers entering the Netherlands from last year's total of nearly 33,000. Since his budget comes from state allocations that...
Southern African Let’s Go Writer David J. Bright ’02 cut short his research in late June after a car wreck in Namibia hospitalized him. Bright’s car hit sand and flipped while he was driving June 26 in the northwestern Namibian state of Khorixas. He suffered lacerations to the head, right arm and left hand in the accident. After the accident, Bright continued to work for Let’s Go at its Cambridge headquarters...