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...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...
...Agostinho Neto, 54, finally managed to prevail over his Western-backed rivals with the help of $300 million in Soviet-supplied arms and 12,000 Cuban soldiers. Neto, now the hardest-lining of the front-line five, continues to reject a peaceful solution for Rhodesia and harbors 3,000 SWAPO guerrillas across his 800-mile common border with Namibia...
...another two hours, shifting the subject to Namibia (South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations mandate that South Africa has ruled since 1920. Some important details on Namibia remained unsettled, but Kissinger still hopes to find a way to bring the South West African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO), a leading political movement, into the territory's constitutional conference, thereby ending SWAPO's guerrilla activity before Namibia becomes independent...