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- <text id=89TT2971>
- <title>
- Nov. 13, 1989: World Notes:Namibia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 13, 1989 Arsenio Hall
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 57
- World Notes
- NAMIBIA
- Disinformation Or Hoax?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Elections for an independent Namibia were less than a week
- away when South Africa, which has controlled the country for 74
- years, called foul. Pretoria dramatically claimed that hundreds
- of Marxist SWAPO guerrillas were infiltrating illegally into the
- country, posing a serious threat to a free and fair vote.
- Claiming to have "monitored" internal messages from a United
- Nations group supervising the election, South Africa suggested
- that the unit was reluctant to act against SWAPO. Vowing to
- "take whatever steps would be required," South Africa put its
- own troops on alert.
- </p>
- <p> U.N. officials denounced the supposed intercepts as fakes,
- and peacekeepers in Namibia reported that the country was
- "exceptionally calm." South Africa's actions appeared to be a
- last pre-election blast against SWAPO, which is favored to win
- and install a leftist government on South Africa's border.
- Pretoria retreated by week's end, saying it might have fallen
- for a hoax.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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