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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesNAMIBIAReturn of the Warrior
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- He ended 30 years of exile by kissing the ground and
- proclaiming a "spirit of peace, love and national
- reconciliation." But the homecoming of Sam Nujoma, leader of the
- South West Africa People's Organization, was overshadowed last
- week by old hatreds and death. Two days before Nujoma's arrival,
- Anton Lubowski, a Namibian-born lawyer and a prominent white
- SWAPO activist, was gunned down outside his home in Windhoek.
- Within 36 hours police announced that they were holding a white
- man in connection with the killing.
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- Nujoma, who has waged a protracted armed struggle against
- South African rule, returned to Namibia in time to register as
- a voter in the November elections for a constituent assembly,
- which will prepare the territory for final independence next
- year. But SWAPO's election director, Hage Geingob, is among
- those who fear that Namibia's history of political bloodshed may
- not yet be over. If any harm came to Nujoma, he said, "the
- consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate."
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