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...Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 435, which South Africa agreed to in principle in 1978 but has never carried out. The resolution calls for Namibian independence and U.N.-supervised elections there...
...Carter administration strongly urged South Africa to grant the Namibians their independence in exchange for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. Diplomatic progress has been made since then--the most recent negotiations saw the Luanda regime concede the withdrawal of all but 10,000 of the Cubans, who would be stationed more than 1000 miles north of the Namibian border. But by aggravating the Luanda government and thwarting the peace process, South Africa has fabricated a pretext for its colonialist extension of apartheid into Namibia...
...administration is really just proposing to do South Africa's dirty work, as Savimibi has long depended on convoys of aid from the white minority regime and has fought with the South Africans against Namibian guerilla forces...
Finally, given the serious shortcomings brought up in the SASC report, why has Steiner yet to renounce any of the programs on the OCS list? The mere fact that Steiner is still entertaining the idea of internships with Namibian organizations that are illegally sponsored by the South African Government seriously questions his commitment to use the internship for its stated goals...
...other hand, he can be formidable in his defense of U.S. policy. In his first appearance at the Security Council last June, he attacked what he regarded as intentional misrepresentation of the U.S. position on Namibia. "The U.S. yields to no one in its support of Namibian independence," he declared. Then, fixing his gaze on the Vietnamese representative, he snapped, "Countries that crush opposition at home are scarcely qualified to judge the functioning of democracy...