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African liberation movements have wrested their countries free of Portugal's500-year-old grip on Africa .

Portuguese troops have left Guinea-Bissau andthe PAIL government is in complete charge . In Mozambique,FPELI O dominatesa ruling executive and in June 1975 Portugal withdraws altogether ; South Af-rica is making conciliatory and cautious noises to her new neighbor . .Angolastill is uncertain but the colonialist. hold is broken and Portuguese soldiersand African freedom fighters join in guiding Namibian exiles to safe harborin Zaire and Zambia . Ian Smith's Rhodesian regime in Zimbabwe bumbles onwith the roof about to fall in.

Namibia's future is cast dramatically into focus . The South African usurperis touting an "all options open " scheme in a scramble to stave off the inevi-table . A NEW YORK TIMES 12 October report from the United Nations quotes theSouth African Foreign Minister, Hilgard Muller, as saying : "If we are honest,we must accept full independence should the people of South-West Africa sodecide in the exercise of . their right to self-determination " an outcome nodoubt at variance with what the Namibian people and the United Nations Councilfor Namibia conceive to be full independence . On the same day, Stanley Urs,writing from Cape Town in THE LONDON OBSERVER, tells of discussions "at thehighest official levels " in Windhoek to partition the country, making the areaknown as Ovamboland (thrown together with southern Angola) into a, separatestate, continuing the bantustanization of other parts of the country, and withthe whites retaining the remaining (and richest) two-thirds, with the optionof becoming a sovereign state linked to South Africa.

Pretoria is preening an accommodatory image externally . Forster sent .a three-man consultative team of one African (Transkei Chief Kaiser Matanzima), oneColoured school principal and one Indian professor along with his UN delega-tion to the current-session of the General Assembly in Newltork - a devicewhich gulled no one . A powerful move to cast South Africa out of the

isnow in the lap of the Security Council and the Special Political Committeehas recommended that African National Congress and Pan-Africanist Congressrepresentatives be seated with observer status.

Inside, South Africa is cracking down as savagely as ever . Twelve leaders ofthe South African Students Organization and the Black People's Convention werearrested following late September demonstrations by SAS() and BPC hailing FM-LIMO . The National Union of' South African Students has been declared to bean "affected organization ' , cutting off foreign funds (three-quarters of NU-SAS , operating income).

The South African regime's most unhinged reaction was to the resolution onconscientious objection of the South African Council of Churches . A DefenseBill imposes a fine of $I,OOO or 10 years' imprisonment for anyone encourag-ing draft resistances a potential threat to South Africa's white conscriptarmy . The churches in South Africa have one last chance to stand up and toresist the apartheid regime .

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SOUTH AFRICAN-COUNCIL OF CHURCHES RESOLUTION ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION

The South African Council of Churches meeting at Hammarskraal in theTransvaal, on 5 August 1974 adopted a resolution on conscientious ob-jection . This occurs ,at'a time when South Africa, which conscriptsable-bodied young white men for military service,' is becoming more andmore isolated from allies and as the pressure of African liberationarmies grows close to its frontiers.

The Religious News Service reports that the resolution was adopted intwo parts, a preamble and a list'of recommendations . A 'majority of the63 voting delegates endorsed each part at SACC r s 197 conference.

We urge all to send messages of support to:

South African Council of Churches-C).

. Box 31190BraamfonteinJohannesburgSouth Africa

The full text of the resolution follows:

PREAMBLE :

The National Conference, of the South African Council of Churches ac-knowledge-s- as the one and only God Him who mightily delivered thepeople of Israel from their bondage in Egypt and who in Jesus Christstill proclaims that He will " set at liberty those who are oppressed "(Luke 2 :18) . He alone is' supreme Lord and Saviour and to Him alonewe owe ultimate obedience . . Therefore "we must ' obey God rather thanmen " in those areas where the government fails to fulfill its callingto be "God's servant for good " rather than for evil and for oppression(Acts 5 :29 ; Romans , 13 :4).

IN THE LIGHT OF THIS TEE CONFERENCE :

1 - Maintains that Christians are called to strive for justice and thetrue peace which can be founded only on justice;

2 - Do.e{s not accept that it is automatically the duty of those whofollowChri'st, the Prince of Peace, to engage in violence and war,or to prepare to engage in violence and war, whenever the statedemands it;

3 - Reminds its member Churches that both Catholic and Reformationtheology has regarded the taking up of arms as justifiable,' if atall ; only -in = order to fight a " just war " ;

14 - Points out that –the theological definition of a " just war" ex-cludes-war in defense of a basically unjust and discriminatorysociety ;

(continued over)

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION :

- 2 -

5 - Points out that the Republic of South Africa is at present afundamentally unjust and discriminatory society and that thisinjustice and discrimination constitutes the primary, institu-tionalized violence which has provoked the counter-violence ofthe terrorists or freedom fighters.

r Points out that the military forces of our country are beingprepared to defend this unjust and discriminatory society andthat the threat of military force is in fact already used todefend -tha.t . status-qu.o against moves for radical-change fromoutside the white electorate;

Maintains-that it is hypocritical to deplore the violence ofterrorists or freedom fighters while we ourselves prepare todefend our society with its primary, institutionalized violenceby means of yet more violence;

Points. aut further that the injustice and oppression under whichthe black people of South Africa labor is far worse than thatagainst which Afrikaners waged-their First and Second Wars ofIndependence and that if we have justified the Afrikaners' re-sort to violence (or the violence of-the imperialism of theEnglish) or claimed that God was on their side, it is hypocrit-ical to deny that the same applies to the black people ln. theirstruggle today;

9 - Questions the basis upon which chaplains are seconded (appoint-ed) to the military forces lest their presence indicate moralsupport for the defense of our unjust and discriminatory so-ciety.

THE CONFERENCE THEREFORE

1 - Deplores violence as a means to solve problems;2 - Calls on its member. Churches to challenge all their members to

consider in view of the above whether Christ's call to take upthe: , ;Cross and follow Him in identifying with the' oppressed' doesnot, in our situation, involve becoming conscientious objectors;

3 - .Calls on those of its member Churches who have chaplains in themilitary forces to reconsider the basis on which they are ap-pointed and to investigate the state of pastoral care availableto the communicants at present in exile or under arms beyondour borders and to seek ways and means of ensuring that suchpastorai care may be properly exercised ;

.- Commends the courage and witness of those who have been willing

to go to jail in protest against unjust laws and policies in ourland, and who challenge all of us by their example ; '.

5 - Requests the South : African Council's task force on violence andnon-violence to study methods of non-violent action for changewhich can be recommended to its member Churches;

6 - Prays for the government and people of our land and urgentlycalls-on them to make rapid strides towards radical and peacefulchange in our society so that the .v iolence and war to which oursocial, economic and political policies are leading us'may beavoided .

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1l~ixon "I'Il~t' ~~ ~~~.~~. ~a~ed.d Africa. . while

maixxtainine "pollticai credibility" for dtr~ dared U'.S . policy in such

way that "tire . politicos costl ~vill rat be ,excessive ." ..

Tlie policy choice made b;s i;he White l~~ ► use was ropor~r edly based in oonsiderabld part on the following; premisn, from Option Tw,o in the stray

egy review."The whites are here #a stagy;

' (in Southern Africa} and ~th~only way t~iat, constx•uctiv

~ change c:an coxxre ab~iut ithrough them. There ' is n{

f ha~pe for the blacks to gain thepolitical rifihts they sQeltb.roufih violence, which Wil

- only :lead to chaos arid . it'n creased oppart~anxties ` for tb+~ C+~inxrturtists.

"we can, by selective relaxation. of our stance taw~rd .th~

e white regirrkes, encaurag~some .modification of then,Current racial and colonicpolicies and through xnor~substantial economic assistonce to the black states (a totai of about ~~ million annually in tecihnical assistance ttthe black states} help to draythe groups together arr€i execsame influence on both fo gpeaceful change,

"+fur tangible interests fonta bash fcrr our contacts in theregion, aril these can be mainta.ined~ at ~n acceptable ptrlitical cost:, "

The region involved in t13~study eon~~rises cambia, ~aIawi, Rhodesia., l~l'iaza~rrabiqueAngola, South .Africa, Soutlxwest Africa (3~a~!ibia), Swaziland, Lesotho and l~at.~wana.

The report uriderscc~red that"same four tnzlliox~ whites it

;South

~~friCa,

Narnibii` (Southwest ~~f :~aa}, Sa'cttherzl~hodesia, Angola an~~ l~oza~n~

s bique" (tt•Ye latter tv,~a Portu~g~ese territaxi.es) :``dominate ~fmillion blacks . "

Ixx the United States, the re~port cautioned, "alt•bough Congrass as a whole does .notsho~~Y substantial interest insouthern ~'i`ica, ax~~ increasingnumber of rongressnre~ a~cisenators are concerned . al?autour relations, particularly

with South Africa, and arewilling to support rescal~ctianstir inquiries about U.S. poli• 'Cy . ~~

~T~A.TEGr'Y`, Fronn A~. . "quoted from N'SSVt 3~ an+other sources . Anderson mad

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pro-self•determination policy available to The tvashin fitotoward .Africa that waa first ~ Pmt a copy cif ~SS~ ~9.set by the Kennedy adnt~nistra• ~ Thls

interfiovernmenta.

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lion .

study, 7i taaAes plus appe~id"Where .did tkiis

(tilt) ices about half as long xoccur?" : . asked one State D~- dated Ara,g. l~, 1~~~, tine yea.partt~ent official . ``~ think the that President ~h'ixon entere.proof ~is hard, to ,find . I think rt ; of fife. A presidential dPClsiois a ..Credit t0 us that we were order

- based on the secretable to ntaintaix~ t :he policies studygas issued in early 1i37~that existed for a decade base- ► variously' reported as Januaryca.ily intact .

~ or ~`ebruary.Others argue that .with tt~eescalating sweep of the black ~ "According

to

seversoda endence drive in Africa !sources, the ree~rirrrmendationin recent years, arryr retrofires• ( fora "selective. relaxation" ca

• . f U .S . policy toward southernstun in U.S~ . support far it, or ; Africa's white governmentseven holding to a stand-patposition, amounted to a back• ~'as made gy ~issinge~r, prin~arward "tilt.,'

il Y basQ~d on ~vb.at ryas kn~o~In any event:, dis~~losure of . as "Cpticin T'wo," the sewn

the contents of NSS~VI ~9 of five choices offered .for abrinfis to public sight. strategic new policy.

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The re ort is based o~n "thassessments of the carpeting

-p

,U .S. interests in. Africa .

~ Policy flilernma within theThe charge of U .S . "tilt " to- U .S. governmexxt" over what is

ward tlie~ minority white gov• described as "the ix~.heren.ternxtierits of Africa v~•as first "equi~rocatiorr'' in Americanaired last ~ ► eck by caltxmnist p ~?Ii cY .

Jack .A.nderson, and indFpenri- This was per~~eived aS theantis by ~'irashingtarx freelance problem of how to protectwriter Tad Szulc, v! r riting in I American "ecanorrric, scien-las~ui,re

xrragazine,

Bath I tific and strategiL interests" fn

Secret 1Vle~no BareU.S. `T~l~' ~n Africa

:t3y lt1l~tr ;•cy l~iard,ertr,',~,~;hir.~t~n Frost ~t~#'f' 4vrit~r

'l'lr~~ V~i~~ar~ 1~'~'x~1ltC" ;louse ir; ; der the dicectit~rY ~3f

envy ~~~,..1~7U secretly t~nc~c~+~sc:kl t .h~: j ,lei"ssrig'er when lie I'~ad the

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'~ ~' ~ , ~si~rgl~ hat of presid~.nti~l naSe~lecr.rvc xelaxatin~~i o~ U .S . ~ ~ 4

r~olic;y ta~~sJard suutner~n ::'~~rr• ~ t~io~nal security affairs adviser,ca ' .5 white-ruled ~;t~~er°~rnYentN ~ hut: rxo matter That the rcpor~fduring the ekplosr~~e lola.rl~, xn• !recommended, or what thettepr~irder~ce drir~~s , ac~cordin r E ~v~hite ruse dies about it, theto near ly disclosc~tl inforn~a- ~ S;tate Uepartxnent insistedtitrzr .

; there was ncr ``tilt " of Ant~ri-A ri unprecedented i n s i rl e c;axz polic~7 toward African

took at how Nixon adn~.nxs• ~ White suprernde3r fi~verx~r-tration . strategists g r a p p l e d ;menu.w'.ftll the conflicting ,goals of

;i,ess~ officially, State ~epart~U .S . econ.oxni.c~~trate is inter+-.

. ; inent Sources are making agists vs . African. self-determr- ~

, .mare sophisticated attempt tonation. has ~.ow become avast- dispel die "tilt" cha .r~;e out of;able . The basic sei°rat report, cnncer.0 over the ce ► nse-known as Na.tioriat Security i cluences that it caula have;Study l~•~lemorandum ~9, never here, and abroad.intenc#ed for public tl7sclo.~ui•e, ! lr7 view of the ror7servative,is certain to have i.xxterna- ;

.tit~n.al axrd ti o m e s t i c raper-1zro~busiz~ess attitude xn the !,

~rxan -White f-iouse, thesecussior7s .

~ sources cantenci, there actu-tr~n ~~rictay, .'the StatFt ;l~eliai't• ~ ally was "Little change" in tl~e

ntent; c~~ficial~,- aec~inea to dis• ~cuss the re ~t~rt, t~rc~~~ared ur ►~ See S'~A'~1~,:'~G~', At1, Col, ~l

,~_. .: ..

"The problem" far U.S.,strategy, said the study,, whichwas ,prepared by the NationalSecurity Council lnterdepart-xnent.al Group for Africa,bluntly was this:

"I. Our interests in thewhite states to the degree theyare seen as at least tacit ac-ceptance of racism affect ourstanding with African and ..other states.

"2 . The prospee~ of inc~eas•ixxg violence in the area firow-itxg out; of black insurgencyand white reprisal could ~eopwardize our interests in the fu-ture."

.Tha secret review de~xibed

U.S . interests in the region as"irtxportant but not vital, "

They include, the reportsaid, U' .S . investments,"primarily in South Africa,(which} total about $1 billionand our trade yields a highlyfa~ro~rable balan~Ce of paymentsadvantage."

The United :Mates, it was ~,emphasized, °`has an importantinterest in the orderly market•ing of Sr~uth Afri .~ca'S gold; pro-duction which is important ttrt:he successful operation of thetwo-tier gold price system";then, but na longer, in effect}.

Strata fiscally, the reportcited the geographic im.por-taxYCe of the southern Africanregion, "particularly wth ~ therylosing of the Suez Canal andshe increased Soviet activityn the .li~dian Ocean .""`f'he U.S. uses overfl%ght

end landing facil~tites .for mils•tars aircraft in the 1'`ortugesekerritories" Hof Anfiola and~Iozaxnbique, which also proTided the United States withsort facilities} "and Sc ►uth Af-~ica," the report noted.

A m. e r i c a n facilities inyouth Africa also included "a~rissile tracking station . , , un-ier aclassified agreement,"plus a U .S . space-tracking facil-ity w- }vhich in I .~'13 was ar•iered to be closed down, in;loges.

T~~ ~A5~~1~GTO PC)S~~" 5~rf ~1ct . f3, z q ~~

enies 'Tile in Policy Toward AfricaBY .Nlurr'ey Marder

can territories, since the Poi'- the U S . arms embargo against. theid in South .Africa.tugese coup last .\pril which Portugal ' s African colonies:

King said, "We have abided,Kiwi said then acetlsations

state Department for- ended Portugal's long dictator-

.

to the extent that 1t ( havearc,n the never-never landj'naTh..' clenie(I yesterdaY t h 'l t shin

of what someone might have bee" able, o

U .N . sane-! US .. policy in the i (:arly 1970s

-The

unileo

0onsidereot. (1

be ootion .

ti.ons against Rhodesia ."" I ii tcd" 1.0w:J1 'o '',ifite''sul.'r"n'. pleased

the pro ::,ress that

The uni t cd sui tes he aid

Tile Pol i cY G r e x e m lAing.,ocY )"c .'2,hllos-t0has been made in the clecolflni

1 .1 L ,. united Na . N.hodesian chrome i mPor is to.if lh .:nry

xation of' po,,tii :..4ese

f r i ea : . 10n .

autilorized,

Seetiti y, (. ..oun(tl

(..olti-

- L.;

t((.recommended a "lilt ."

Donald .11 . Vasurn,

i i" on the arms embargoin 19. 71 by an admendmentpriVate .

Inart :', ' secretary of state for ..N.frican a .e. ainst sout h Africa ., evensponsored 1)y Sen . HarryArnet'iczin ofnciltIs concede d affairs, otld a 11oue subeom 111ou0i i, daias no t been manda ... Byrd .1r . (Ind .- Va

was "not.that Ole Nit:on athninitrationmitte on Ti.n.:.'sday .

the stir,''

ako an arms cm_ our Ed.(..-a .'' slidcfid give higher priority to April coop in Lisbon . thehalt .li ., "on weaoo .r.s

t he execu t ive branch .dealing with existim..; regiMes . United Stati , s

a

widely

African c,ilonks :-

The Rhodesian chronic ex1. 11an t gave to their ehallen'4- charged with givinp only III)-. . Ai , o he sa id . the united emotion . which exposed ti. e

Icrs '' " '. Afric "- "'t ''.)01 . (lee' Slates dscouraed Arnecican : Uni.ted States to furious at-otne .r re ::.ions or the lonizato.n in :Africa in the b us i nessmen ( nun jnVeSl. ing in tacks from black Africa , act u .,

South West Africa, ' and "we ally \v as only lightly opposedThe latest chart.1,e of a

State Department spokes- have always deplored

as hY the Nixon administration at"tilt" . hy Kissinger if) Afr.iea,l man John F . King said ester- :abhorrent the prictiee ()f apar the time . President

ord.vs ..as aired y('Stei 'day by. neWS-'' day that "obviouslY

am not %vhen he WaS 1'.1OUSe,i ''tek

in as position to te!.I you what.l ( . ',.,eported I hat .Kis;in .. .rnight

have

be en

recom-

can leader. strongly supported

I .heri Presidont :Nixon's na- . mnded by Kissinger, before

tdle .Byrd amendment . but as

tonal securi .ty affairs adviser . : he became Secretary 4)1 State

.tilt' . Ford has. de-recommended

in

January, last year.

('lar.ed supprt. For, attempts19'('G, thatthe President "tilt

"Ttw fact of the alatter,''

under way n Congress to re-t .c. ward the white supremacy!said Kin :! :

shalt there neVer

peat the adaiendtnent.

wi .t'ions " of ..A,fri.ea, in. selectirn ..': was a m.atehing dec., .isi.on paper

"Un the whole.,"

con-

options from secret National that touched on those options"

tyncice .. ''it"11en you t ;tke into

Security Stw.i',Y :Vlemorandwm set forth in tho secret . national

account what the track recordpia .

security study in 1970 .

115 ti 1wen over the

ea.r, itwith the Ford •0dministra ..

One Of the

in 1h :2,

takes a tittlo st .r ;. .inii :g to saythin n 'I runnin'2

with Anderson ri:l?ort . was that 1.114E

that \A o have tilf .ed tow:i.ird the

rive! . charge .s that singer ',,von out, for at

v,hiti? regimes (d .Nfrica,." 01. h *U.S. policy has been "tilted

a clash

P . Rod .

oflThials, in private . con-' ward Tur ..-y "Kissi.n .'4er in ers, then Secretary of State

that the Fordthe Cyprus crisi

the State over keeping the LS . consu- tratiOil

erideaVOring

to:' Departtnent is

sensi .Hktr office open

white ruledsite about any charges of ptol- Rhodesia - despite world sane-icy i)ias, ;iii official doni .1

tions against that . eiJun lis Y . An-new 'tilt" charge therefore other series ofVi.aS 31MOSi itle1. .t ;iii, t?

thlt

.K.issin :,.!er

urgE.:q l

covert

in addition

the Sial(..., 1) i„:.-elicoura .f.,'.e1ent . of

tradeanxicius 1.o d(,s mi)n v" t h v , hite-ruled Souih ,\frica ,

Orate t.1i 1t current U .S 1)o :he1` :and incrt'.., ast ..'d military contactis sutiportive of n( ,,v I)Iock !` itlr that

nation, .K.issiro.er

ruIc., d :1overnrrien

that . are :a?o ',vas reported to -have fa-

"FlilE WA.SfIrNGTON POSTIn ForlugLils Alri- : voreci a "(1114.1 loosening" of

See also Tad Szulc's article tucked away amongst longer pieces and all the

Pictures in the October issue of ESQUIRE, beginning on page 43 . .ti d Jack

: 111-Iderson's columns of mid-October . Refer to ECSA's frite99st bulletin on

the N :TO contingency planning for defense of Southern ,-:,frica.

Write : Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Washington, D . C . 20520

Your senator, Washington, D .C . 20510

(or at the home office)

Your congressman, Washington, D .C . 20515 ("

)

DEMAND CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS OF U .S . POLICY AND PRACTICE IN AFRICA.

Please send EC3 copies of the replies you may get.

EP130CPAL CHURCHMEN FCF SOUTH AFRICA

14 West 11th Street, New York, N .Y . 10011

PHONE : (d :12) 477-0066

counter the widespread im-dressi.on t.? a "tilt"

S . AT-rrr. C;rican policy n recent years .

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COMMISSIONER FOR NAMIBIA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Sean MacBride, United Nations Commissioner for Namibia,was on 8 October awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1974.

The 70-year-old former secretary-eneral of the Interna-tional Commission of Jurists and chairman of Amnesty In-ternational was cited for his "many years of efforts tobuild up and protect human rights all over the world " .

The selection of the one-time IRA leader and foreign min-ister of Ireland (he shares the Prize with former Japan-ese Prime Minister Sato) is a recognition of his personallife-time commitment and is another indication of the in-creasing prominence of Namibia in the eyes of the world.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1974

U.N. Body Acts on South-West Africa's ResourcesBy PAUL HOFMANN

1, which has been governing the ! posed of 50,000 AfrikenersiSouth African delegation fromfSprz.1al to The ;N ?MY York, Tin's

territory 'since World War I, 35,000 Germans and 5,000 per- ;the world organization's Gen* ,

UNITED NATIONS, Ns 'V a l Virtually all communications sons of British descent,

'ex.& Assembly.Sept . 28—The United Nations between South-West Africa and South-West Africa was once Yesterday, the assembly'sCouncil for Namibia, an 18 coon- the outside world pasts through a German colony, and its crap- Credentials Committee voted totry group concerning itself with South Africa, which has defied AM, Windhoek, has retained recommend unseating of theSouth-west Africa, decreed to- United Nations efforts to dis- the flavor of a German provinSouth African delegates,day that the South African tern-!lodge it from the .area, cial town, The Council for Namibia, in!toryi s animal and mineral Although the council cannot South Africa informed thefanother action, approved a planresources must not be exploited! enforce its decree, it will have united Nations earlier this %r eek 1 to establish an Institute forwithout the eourttiiia consent. to be taken into consideration , that the National Party of. Namibia in Lusaka, Zambia]

The council said any re .. by concerns based in couhtriesISouth-West Africa, representinelhe institute is to providesources exploited without its other than South Africa that almost the entire white popu-

Iblacks from South-West Africa!

written permis g ion may he' are active in Sean-West Artneadiation, had decided to start in-j with education and training tolseized and shall be forfeited I United States companies have lterracial talks on the territory sistrengthen all their efforts, in-and held in trust for the people some mining ventures in thelconstitutional future .

lcluding those on the politicallof the territory.

area .

The initiative coincided withilevel, in the struggle for free dThe League of Nations man- The chief products of thews . African-led move in the dom" anal to teach them ad-

date held by South Africa over'thinly populated but potentiallyi Umted Nations 'to e x pe l the nemstrative , skil l s.South-West Africa was termi- , rieh area are diamonds, lead,i

r1ated by the United Nations zinc and other minerals, c ;attle966, and the United Nations and sheep. Fisheries are also l

council was set up to look after importantthe territory's affairs . In 1968 The United' Nations Com-1the United Nations renamed the missioner for Namibia, Sean 1territory Namibia, for thelMae Bride of Ireland, said yes-1Namib, a coastal desert strip dterday that the decree on re-!The United Nations actions have sources was the first instancenot been recognized by South of legislation by the council.Africa. i Mr. MacBride, a former Irishl

T he council's decree statediForeign Minister, declared inthat any vehicle, ship or eon- I an interview that the popula-1tainer found to be carrying re- Lion of South-West Africa wassources from South-West Africa probably much higher than all"shall also be subject to seizure available statistics indicated.and forfeiture ." 1 "I estimate the African pope-I

The United Nations council t cation to be more than onelmillion, "Mr. MaeBride said."Whenever a census is taken,many Africans just take to thebush for fear of head tax."

The latest South Africandata, published last month, give!a population of 850,000, includ-ing 90,000 whites.

The United Nations cornmiseeavia and Zambia.

sioner said he believed theSouth-West Africa .has a corm-1white population, which domi-1

mon frontier with South Africa, nates the territory, was corn-

has no enforcement powers andmust rely on member states ofthe world organization for ins-

lplementationi It is , composed ofBurundi, Chile, China, Columbia,Egypt, Guyana, India, Indo-nesia, Liberia, -Mexico, Nigeria,Pakistan, Poland, Rumania, Tur-key, the Soviet Union, Yugo-

fr1/S/4Ai PATR?07

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A SWAPO delegation of Namibians whorecently gone into exile arrive inYork in late October to attend the cur-rent session of the UN General Assembly.

John Otto, who endured the first TerrorismTrial in 1967/68 ; Andreas Nuukwawo, SWAPOYouth League leader who was flogged with16 strokes last year ; Netumbo Nandi ; andtwo women, nurses Taati Ithindi and Ulita-la Namweya will swell the liberation move-

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.HSouth African Police who had been invited to takepart in a Police Olymplcs in San Francisco from28 to 30 August 1974 have been dis-invited.

Sah Francisco .Chief of Police Donald Scott wrotethe South African consul in that city that theconsensus in the Police Department was that it

"regrets it must withdraw the invitation to theSouth African Police to participate in the PoliceOlympics because of difficulties expected and theimplications that would be drawn " .

National concern brought letters and telegrams into Mayor Joseph Alioto's office . Strong oppositton developed in the Bay Area, Negotiations be-tween the consul's office and civic groups failedto persuade the South Africans to decline the in-vitation . Protest rallies resulted in plans fordisruption of :t',he athl etic contest.

The decision to diseinvite was made public on 7. August . The , full text ofChief Scott's letter to the South African official 14as not released, how-ever . The invitation to the 30-man SAP team was disclosed on 11 July byEpiscopal Churchmen for South Africa, an invitation eagerly accepted bythe South African government which faces ostracism by nations of the worldbecause of its racist policies and police state methods.

The South Africans had tried to improve the image of the SAPs by includinga token Afriban sergeant, a Coloured detective and an Indian constable onthe team? a move hailed by Minister of Police (Prisons and Justice) JamesKruger : 'Our team will not only consist of the best sportsmen but also thebest that South. Africa can uster.

The American dis-invitation is a body blow to sports-mad South Africa,which since 19&3 has been excluded from the Olympic Games . Its chancesof being allowed to participate at Montreal in 1976 are slim. The cancel-lation is a public slap in the 'face to the Pretoria government as it des- 7perately roaches out for friends,especially the powerful USA . South Afri-ca's once-thought impregnable position at the tip of the continent buffer-ed by white-controlled countries Is fast dissolving.

State , President J . J . Fouche, opening Parliament in Cape Town on 2 August,stated : "'The terrorist threat continues to create problems for South Afri-ca, which necessitate the .presence of members of the police force and thedefence force on our borders " and spoke of speeded-up plans to meet thepossible spread of low-intensity guerrilla war . Minister Kruger announced ta new system of sending policemen to the borders or to support the Rhodes-ian regime for voluntary l2 month spells of duty, as police sources madepublic the 11th admitted death of a South African constable in Zimbabwe.

Lt .Gen, Nolan Loxton, SAP chief deputy commissioner stated : "Every man inthe force, except those over 50 or who can produce medical certificatesthat they are in regular need of doctor's attention, will be given a-turnto do border duties . "