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Word: swapo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admitted that contrary to previous denials, South Africa had secretly spent more than $36 million to keep the leftist South West Africa People's Organization from winning a commanding victory in pre-independence elections in neighboring Namibia in 1989. Pretoria's support of at least seven parties opposed to SWAPO may have prevented the organization from gaining the two- thirds majority it needed to introduce a socialist constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Crisis of Confidence | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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