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- WORLD, Page 40World NotesNAMIBIAWary Peace, No Retreat
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- A fitful peace descended last week on Namibia as the
- longtime South African colony struggled to carry out its United
- Nations-supervised transition toward independence. There were
- only a few clashes between guerrillas of the South West Africa
- People's Organization and local and South African security
- forces; the fighting had killed 293 during the first three
- weeks of the transition. Some 1,000 SWAPO forces remained in
- Namibia rather than returning to bases more than 100 miles
- north, beyond the border in Angola.
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- Commission members monitoring the border situation formally
- declared SWAPO's presence in Namibia a violation of the peace
- accord and instructed the rebels to return to Angola. The U.N.
- belatedly began deploying, but at week's end only a handful of
- rebels had surrendered, apparently because assembly points were
- also manned by Namibian security forces. Some chose instead to
- make their own way over the border.
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