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...country's political composition makes that goal elusive at best. On the far left, the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) makes periodic guerrilla raids from Angola into Ovamboland, the northern strip of Namibia where most Blacks still live. South Africa has spent the last decade trying to beat them back from the Ovamboland border. Meanwhile, the ruling regime has sought to pull together a party of native moderate leaders--tribal, white and Afrikaner--claiming that they, not SWAPO, represent the population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which...
...nationwide constitutional convention called the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance came up with a constitution and a president, only to lose both to the violence of dissenting SWAPO terrorists. In 1981, the Reagan Administration seized on Namibian independence as its only chance to do something constructive. In that initiative the Western allied nations, generally known as "the five," went so far as to set an August 15 deadline for accords, but missed the deadline by making Namibian independence contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola, a bow to South African tears. The same issue of Cuban troops has marked talks...
...might naturally take longer." The government hinted that South African-supervised elections for the National Assembly might come early next year. Those elections could conceivably provide further ammunition for South Africa in its campaign to keep power out of the hands of the South West Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO), the Marxist-dominated guerrilla movement that is leading the armed independence struggle...
...seven African nations. Calling the linkage "the key to the settlement," Bush declared that "we're going to stick with it." His words met with displeasure from his hosts, who included Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, leader of one of the five "frontline" states that most actively support the SWAPO guerrillas. That did not bode well for the future of Namibia, nor for the U.S. image in black Africa...
...claims of success. The first phase of the settlement, determining the constitutional principles and ground rules for elections that are scheduled to be held in March 1983, is all but concluded. Yet to be decided is whether elections will be held on the basis of proportional representation favored by SWAPO or the constituency approach that would help preserve some of the white-supported fringe groups. The second phase of the negotiations, dealing with the makeup of UNTAG, the 7,500-man U.N. peace-keeping force that will supervise the transition, is also well along. South Africa has proposed a multiethnic...