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Prospects brightened abruptly last week for a speedy end to the hostilities that have long festered in the mineral-rich territory of Namibia (South West Africa), nestled along the African continent's Atlantic coast between Angola and South Africa. After meetings in the Angolan capital of Luanda, militant Namibian nationalists of the South-West African People's Organization (SWAPO) agreed to go along with a peacemaking formula drawn up by five Western powers. The plan calls for ending the twelve-year-old guerrilla war in the territory by having the United Nations supervise progress toward independence...
MacBride, who won the peace prize in 1974, is currently the United Nations commissioner for Namibia (South-West Africa). He has also served as Ireland's Minister for External Affairs, president of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists...
...closing its access to the sea; soon the flow of Mozambican workers to South African mines will cease and Frelimo will allow black revolutionary groups which threaten South Africa directly to operate on its soil. If Angola develops a government of a similar ideological cast, it will further isolate South Africa and provide a home base for South West African revolutionaries. Furthermore, the South African government has invested heavily in the Cunene river electric project, located just across the Angolan border, which it requires to develop South-West Africa. Since late August, South African armies have roamed through southern Angola...
Sonny sank all their savings into a movie vehicle for his wife called, like the child they discovered was on the way in the midst of shooting, Chastity. In it, she solemnly searched the South-west for life's meaning, and it bombed. They found themselves flat broke and owing $180,000 in back taxes. Accompanied by baby and a nanny, they hit the road again, sometimes playing to audiences of 45 in small clubs, developing along the way the kidding-on-the-square comedy style that later became the staple of their TV show. They fought their...
...last time Baylor won the South-west Conference--50 long years ago--was closer to Custer's last stand than to 1974. Clearly the shock team of the Year of Upsets, the Bruins upended not only Daddy Darrell Royal's seven-year hegemony in the Cotton Bowl--some thought it should be renamed the Horny Bowl, after his Texas Longhorns--but gave superpower Oklahoma its only good game of the season...