Word: namibian
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...onetime League of Nations-mandated territory that South Africa has ruled since 1920 (TIME, Aug. 30). Last January the U.N. ordered South Africa to prepare an independence timetable for Namibia by Aug. 31, 1976, or face U.N. economic sanctions. Accordingly, South Africa assembled a constitutional conference in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, and last month the conference agreed on a multiracial interim government to prepare for independence on Dec. 31, 1978. Kissinger rightly called the decision "a major breakthrough" because "the principle of independence has now been accepted." Black African states were still not satisfied, however, because of the two-year...
...Namibia's white conservatives for some heavy persuasion, the constitutional conference reached a measured compromise. After almost a year of discussion, the twelve different ethnic groups in the territory -eight black, one white and three of mixed race-settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for Namibian independence. A multiracial interim government-probably to be headed by Clemens Kapuuo, a Herero tribal chief, and Dirk Mudge, a white rancher-will draft a constitution, organize elections and oversee the transfer of power. The non-white majority at the conference had pressed for independence by next June...
...from its powerful neighbor. Besides, South Africa provides practically all of Namibia's imports. And it will still control Walvis Bay, the only good port on Namibia's Atlantic coastline, which South Africa has held as a separate entity since 1910. Small wonder, then, that the new Namibian government is expected to sign a security agreement allowing South African troops to be based on Namibian soil. The troops will defend the new government against SWAPO guerrilla raids. More important from South Africa's viewpoint, they will preserve Namibia's status as a buffer to the north...
...told the South African Financial Mail in May 1975 that he hopes "future leaders of Angola will cooperate with South Africa" and that apartheid "is a South African problem" and much misunderstood. By contrast, the MPLA has already provided a base for the operations of SWAPO of Namibia, the Namibian liberation movement...
...population was barely audible to the outside world, except for a trickle of journalists and representatives from Afro-American organizations, willing to make the eight week journey on foot to UNITA bases within central Angola. Impressive reports about the movement filtered out by word-of-mouth accounts from the Namibian Liberation Movement--SWAPO--guerrillas. While SWAPO was forced to maintain a diplomatic alliance with MPLA because of its Soviet backing, SWAPO operated against the South African army (and continues to do so today) from UNITA bases in Southern Angola...