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WORLD, Page 41World NotesNAMIBIAReturn of the Warrior
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.
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."