Word: swapo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leader Herman Toivo ja Toivo thundered an impassioned defense of his activities in Namibia when he stood in a South African courtroom 17 years ago. Last week, after 16 years in prison, Toivo was released. Two hundred supporters of his organization, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), lined the streets in a town near Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to give him a joyous homecoming. As he descended from the back of a pickup truck flying blue-red-and-green flags, any notion that he had mellowed in Cape Town's Robben Island prison was soon...
...sturdy, balding man, Toivo is considered to be the founding father of SWAPO, the strongest and most important liberation movement in the South African-occupied Toivo ja Toivo territory of Namibia once known as South West Africa. Its goal...
...Machel, the decisive impetus toward accommodation was a growing fear that South Africa might unleash its vastly superior muscle against Mozambique. In the past year South Africa has conducted major military operations against guerrilla strongholds of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) in Angola and has staged periodic raids on A.N.C. bases in Mozambique. Despite its battlefield successes, however, South Africa has been growing weary of the regional struggle, which is expected to consume some 10% of this year's national budget and has brought a mounting toll of casualties...
...even had a military presence in Angola. Botha went on to say that he hoped the gesture would lead to an end of the bush war that has raged and sputtered for 17 years between South African troops and guerrillas of the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which is recognized by the United Nations as the official representative of Namibia. Botha's decision was made more dramatic by the fact that his government had just completed what it called a victorious five-week invasion of Angola in pursuit of SWAPO forces. But the costs...
...Foreign Minister, Roelof ("Pik") Botha. The Prime Minister told Parliament that the government's decision to disengage was based, at least partly, on "assurances" received from the U.S. Just what those assurances were is unclear, but presumably Angola promised Washington that it would attempt to restrain the SWAPO guerrillas during the disengagement period...