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...Ovambo tribe, which makes up roughly half of Namibia's population, has been given only one of the eight Cabinet seats, while whites, who constitute less than 8%, hold two. Western diplomats in the region suggest that South Africa aims to entrench a friendly government that will eventually force SWAPO, the predominantly Ovambo South-West African People's Organization, to turn from guerrilla warfare to political compromise. SWAPO, which has been at war with South Africa since 1966, refuses to join the new government...
...from the area on condition that five West European nations take over at their own expense and, at the same time, that Cuba withdraw its forces from neighboring Angola. In Zurich, Botha guaranteed "safe passage" for Sam Nujoma, head of the nationalist South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), to discuss independence in the Namibian capital of Windhoek...
Meanwhile, back in Namibia, scores of camouflaged policemen were stealing up on a group of 37 SWAPO leaders and supporters enjoying a barbecue. All 37 were jailed without charge, then released from custody just as abruptly four days later. Were Botha and his government embarrassed by the timing of the arrests? "Yes," snapped a government official in Pretoria. "Next question...
DIED. Dennis Keogh, 44, career U.S. State Department official, and Lieut. Colonel Kenneth Crabtree, 45; in a terrorist bomb explosion at a gas station just outside Oshakati, Namibia. Both were members of a U.S. liaison team monitoring the cease-fire in Namibia. South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrillas were blamed by South African officials for the attack, but denied the charge...
...cease-fire between South Africa and Angola has held, and even South African officials have been impressed by the Angolan determination to end the border war. In recent weeks, troops from both countries have combined forces in a Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC), which has been forced to engage disruptive SWAPO forces on three separate occasions. The JMC toll: two killed and eight wounded, all Angolan. The fact that the Dos Santos government has been willing to let its soldiers fight against SWAPO, once its trusted ally, indicates how seriously it takes its new truce with South Africa...