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Gorman's artwork mostly depicts Navajo women clad in robes or traditional garb. His work is particularly well known in the South-west...
...years, South Africa has violated international law by refusing to withdraw its claim to sovereignty over Namibia--called South-West Africa by the Pretoria government. South Africa vehemently maintains that the aid it funnels to Savimbi, supplemented by occasional invasions of Angola by the South African army, is the only way to ensure that the Cubans and Marxists in Angola don't provide sanctuary and support for the rebels trying to kick the South African army out of Namibia...
...year-old Afrikaner president offered to implement a U.N. resolution granting independence to Namibia if the Cubans left Angola. Namibia, or South-West Africa, is under South African administration and is a target of guerrillas operating from Angola...
...most of the past twelve months, riots, mass arrests and other agonies of domestic unrest have pushed South Africa's frequently uneasy relationship with nearby African states into the background. Last week, however, those tensions resurfaced as 500 South African troops crossed into Angola, purportedly in pursuit of guerrillas fighting for the independence of South-West Africa, or Namibia, a territory controlled by South Africa under a long-expired League of Nations mandate...
...Assembly decision. Moreover, the Ovambo tribe, which makes up roughly half of Namibia's population, has been given only one of the eight Cabinet seats, while whites, who constitute less than 8%, hold two. Western diplomats in the region suggest that South Africa aims to entrench a friendly government that will eventually force SWAPO, the predominantly Ovambo South-West African People's Organization, to turn from guerrilla warfare to political compromise. SWAPO, which has been at war with South Africa since 1966, refuses to join the new government...