Word: swapo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another sore point for the South Africans is Namibia. Carter referred to South Africa's intransigence in his Lagos speech, but failed to mention that the Marxist SWAPO (South West African People's Organization) has also rejected a settlement plan put forward by five Western powers. Carter only regretted, and did not condemn, the cold-blooded murder of Herero Chief Clemens Kapuuo, who almost certainly was the victim of a SWAPO assassination campaign directed against moderate black Namibians. One famous South African, Heart Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, charges that Washington refuses to accept admittedly imperfect internal settlements in Namibia...
...sides sought to reap political advantage from the assassination. South African officials charged that SWAPO had killed the black leader as part of an assassination campaign, and alluded to a "captured document" that purportedly included plans to kill opposition black leaders in Namibia. In Zambia last week, SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma, who at one time studied English under Kapuuo, denied that his organization had had anything to do with the killing. The murder, he suggested, might well have been the work of South African provocateurs...
...administered (as South West Africa) since 1920. Under international pressure, South Africa is now trying to set Namibia free, but only under a moderate government that would cause the South Africans no trouble. The hitch is that the only Namibian political group recognized by the United Nations is SWAPO (for South West African People's Organization). But SWAPO, a radical guerrilla group backed by Angola, is excluded from Pretoria's independence plans, and has vowed to fight until it can bring about a government of its own. At the U.N., South Africa has thus far escaped efforts...
...highest bidder. A third major source is Eastern Europe, which acts as arms supplier to Soviet-backed parties in the Middle East. The recipients represent a who's who of revolutionary militant movements, starting with the P.L.O. and the Eritrean Liberation Front, dissident groups in the Gulf states, SWAPO and other smaller black African nationalist movements, and rebels in Pakistan's Baluchistan. The traffic reaches as far as Thailand and Burma. Its customers are not exclusively radical: some of the biggest and most lucrative orders have come from the embattled whites of Rhodesia...
Deffenbaugh plans to write his third-year Law School paper about a case involving six members of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), a group recognized by the United Nations as the representative of the Namibian people...