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...transition period dawned on April 1, some 1,300 SWAPO troops armed with AK-47 rifles swarmed into Namibia from their bases in southern Angola. Even as thousands of red-green-and-blue-clad SWAPO supporters chanted "Freedom is in our hands" at noisy celebrations in the capital of Windhoek, the guerrillas were coaxing donkeys carrying rocket launchers and other artillery through the thick sand of the bush. According to captured prisoners, SWAPO commanders told their troops that UNTAG would allow them to establish military bases in Namibia, where they would be "confined to barracks" like the South African battalions...
...helped along toward the end by the new spirit of cooperation between Washington and Moscow. U.S. officials credit the Soviets for employing "cajolery and arm-twisting" that made the Cubans and Angolans more flexible, particularly during the crucial round of talks at which a withdrawal timetable was worked out. SWAPO welcomed the accord but expressed doubts about South African intentions. The only guarantee of Pretoria's keeping its word after signing the agreement in New York, said a SWAPO official, is the "vigilance of the Namibian people...
...Harvard student interning in South Africa is abducted by SWAPO rebels while on a field trip to Namibia. The rebels turn the hapless student over to the Angolan government, which publicizes him as an example of U.S. educational imperialism. Among the student's personal effects is Melendez's business card, bearing the name of the Liberal Arts Education Foundation. On the back of the card is what appears to be the number of a bank account and a telex address in Geneva. The telex address and account are at Landesbank...
...insurgents fighting against the Marxist government in Luanda. (South Africa later admitted that it was aiding the Angolan resistance.) The Angolan government said the action violated a 1984 accord under which South Africa agreed to withdraw its forces from southern Angola in exchange for Angola's promise to prohibit SWAPO forces from operating there. The accusation followed the disclosure that South Africa had violated a similar pact with Mozambique by supplying antigovernment guerrillas in that country with radios and weapons. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha admitted to "technical violations" of the accord, but claimed that they had been...
...foray into Angola, General Constand Viljoen, commander of the South African defense forces, insisted that it had been mounted in response to increased "abductions, intimidation and sabotage" by SWAPO. That explanation failed to satisfy Washington, which called for an immediate pullback. After meeting in the White House with Samora M. Machel, the visiting leader of Mozambique, President Reagan also denounced South Africa's actions in that country. Viljoen eventually announced that his troops had disrupted SWAPO supply lines and would pull out of Angola over the weekend...