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Last broadcast I was talking about the newest emerging country in Africa --
Namibia -- once under mandate to South Africa and soon to become an independent
nation.

South Africa agreed to terms submitted by the United States and the U.N. but
immediately thereafter the U.N. began unilaterally changing these terms. It is funneling
millions of dollars to a terrorist leader Sam Nujoma and wants to recognize his
terrorist band called SWAPO as the government of Namibia without benefit of a vote
by the people. Our government is going along with this in spite of Nujoma's
declaration that he is a revolutionary and that he isn't fighting for majority rule,
but is fighting to seize power.

It isn't red-baiting to call Nujoma a Marxist. He has gone to East Germany
where he signed a compact of cooperation. He visited Moscow where he was promised
sophisticated weapons and journeyed to Cuba where he received promises of "unshakable
support."

Violence has increased in Namibia. In May all of the people of that country were
incensed by the bayoneting of a grandmother and her two young grandchildren. The U.N.
made no comment about that but vehemently protested South Africa's attempt to capture
and punish the murderers.

The interim government of Namibia has removed more than 95 percent of apartheid
and has worked hard to achieve a non-racial government and complete majority rule.
South Africa attempted in the U.N. to present its side of the story. It was
their first appearance in the U.N. in five years. The General Assembly voted 93
to 19 to not accept their ambassador's credentials. Even so, South Africa continues
to say it will stand by the U.N. proposal it signed in good faith.

It boggles the mind to think that our government believes it is in our best
interest to turn Namibia over to a pro-Communist government when it is obvious
that the people of that country prefer a government favorable to the west and
certainly non-Communist.

Namibia is rich in minerals and has great room for expansion with a population
of less than two inhabitants per square mile. A former mayor of its capitol city
says, "We believe that the United States has lost sight of what is really happening
here. Its support of terrorism is not the policy you would expect from a great
power."

No it isn't. And it's hard to understand our agreeing with a demand that
Nujoma's murderous force be allowed to openly establish bases within Namibia. Possibly
we think it is inconvenient for them to have to cross the border from their hideouts
in Angola whenever they feel a murder coming on.

The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a multi-racial political party, representing
the 11 black, brown and white population groups of Namibia, continues to strive for
free elections, no thanks to the U.N. or the U.S. 

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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