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...country's political composition makes that goal elusive at best. On the far left, the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) makes periodic guerrilla raids from Angola into Ovamboland, the northern strip of Namibia where most Blacks still live. South Africa has spent the last decade trying to beat them back from the Ovamboland border. Meanwhile, the ruling regime has sought to pull together a party of native moderate leaders--tribal, white and Afrikaner--claiming that they, not SWAPO, represent the population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which...
...contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola, a bow to South African tears. The same issue of Cuban troops has marked talks between U.S. and Soviet officials this week. Angola insists that South Africa also remove the troops it bases in Angola, just across the border from Ovamboland...
...conducted mostly in sporadic, hit-and-run raids by both sides, is focused on the northern area of Ovamboland. This flat bush country near the Angolan border offers SWAPO good cover and a minimum of geographical obstacles. In other sectors, the current rainy season and swollen rivers have slowed down both sides. The rains wash away SWAPO supply routes. At a camp in the Caprivi Strip, one South African company commander complained: "I've got a patrol out there that is cut off by three rivers that flooded last night. I'm going to have to extract them...
...SWAPO attack on a hydroelectric station at Ruacana Falls on the Namibian side of the border. Other terrorist incidents this year have included the assassination last month of Chief Clemens Kapuuo, the black leader of a multiracial group that opposes SWAPO, the murder of several tribal leaders in Ovamboland, the planting of land mines and booby traps, and the hijacking to Angola of a bus with 73 passengers on board...
Vorster & Co. argue that under separate racial development the inhabitants of South West Africa, particularly the nonwhites, have never had it so good. Since 1964, when the program was initiated. South Africa has spent more than $200 million, much of it on Ovamboland, near the Angola border. During that time, the Ovambos have increased the number of teachers from 550 to 1,200, of schools from 130 to 220, and of pupils from 25,000 to 60,000 (nearly 60% of the school-age population). They have also acquired a $2.8 million hospital, and will soon receive $84 million...