Word: swapo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow Ovimbundu (40% of the country's population) and other southern Angolan tribes, which have deep-rooted hostility toward Neto, a mixed-race assimilado, and the Cubans. He has also received substantial backing from South Africa, which wants UNlTA's help in controlling the Namibian guerrillas of SWAPO (Southwest African People's Organization), who operate from base camps in southern Angola...
...Cuban involvement: The intention of the Cubans is to control the border with Namibia so that they can help SWAPO. Today they fear to come into this area. We control most of the south. I don't think the Cubans are very keen on the war any more. When they start being sent home in their coffins, they will be less keen...
...come down to a crunch, but we've had other crunches before," Moose said last week, explaining that the South African government's greatest concern has to do with the prospects of the concentration of South-West Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO) bases in Namibia. The South African government would like to see a provision for monitoring SWAPO forces included in the U.N. plan, he added...
Despite some analysts predictions that SWAPO is the dominant party in Namibia, Moose said that a coalition government will probably result from a "genuinely free election...
Indications are that the D.T.A. will probably wind up with 80% of the vote. But the showdown between the D.T.A. and SWAPO lies ahead. SWAPO is still waging the guerrilla war. It might suspend the fighting during a U.N.-supervised election campaign, but it would not be prepared to lose that voting contest. Says a SWAPO leader: "The struggle will continue. That's all." Translation: If SWAPO should be defeated at the polls in such an election, the bloodshed would continue...