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...year control of that nation. This year, for the first time. South African troops came into direct confrontation with those of Marxist Angola, supported by some of the country's estimated 26,000 Cuban soldiers and advisers. After five years of tortuous U.N. negotiation, the Angolan-Namibian situation is still at a violent stalemate: Angola refuses to dismiss its Cuban troops until South Africa withdraws; South Africa refuses to withdraw until the Cubans are dismissed. Meanwhile, South Africa will doubtless continue assisting the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UMTA) in its attacks against the Angolan...
...writes about in directed toward Namibia's northern neighbor, Angola. What Williams should have written is that Zimbabwe does not believe that the United States should insist that the withdrawal of the 20,000 Cuban troops that currently reside in Angola can be a condition of any plan for Namibian independence. Expected by President Reagan, this policy is an example of what Mugabe calls "the United States's tendency to view African political struggles strictly in East-West terms...
Since the Reagan policy deviates from the position of Jimmy Carter, it has helped sour the United States's relations with many Black African nations, and has been exploited by South Africa. Whenever questions of Namibian independence has been discussed, facts pertaining to the policy and the dispute should not be presented inaccurately by any newspaper, school daily or otherwise. The next time Williams or any Crimson editor writes a story that mentions the Namibia dispute they should first research the facts. The Western countries have, then far, failed to convince South Africa to relinquish its control over Namibia...
...quite that simple. The biggest stumbling block to an accord remains South Africa's insistence that Namibian independence be linked to the withdiawal of an estimated 30,000 Cuban Hoops in neighboring Angola. Although the issue was sidestepped last week, the negotiators had, as Perez de Cuellar put it, made "meaningful progress." The most significant accomplishment, perhaps, was intangible. The low-key Peruvian Secretary-General convinced the South African government that he was not biased in favor of the South-West Africa People's Organization of Namibia (SWAPO), the guerrilla group that has been fighting for Namibian independence...
...mildly encouraging. Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos told the Secretary-General that a Cuban troop withdrawal might be possible under certain conditions. Among his demands: that South Africa halt its military support for guerrillas of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and agree to Namibian independence...