Word: swapo
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...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...
...Namibian independence, and last month a constitutional conference in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for the transfer of power. The biggest snag is that the negotiators at Windhoek did not include any representatives of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the liberation-and guerrilla -movement that is recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity as the sole representative of the Namibian people. Kissinger's first chore was to try to get South Africa and SWAPO together over the same conference table, perhaps in Geneva...