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WORLD, Page 40World NotesNAMIBIAWary Peace, No Retreat
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.
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.