Africa: OAU Diplomats
Set Sights On
'Dynamic Promise9
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iAN Efforts to
: reconvene the abortive
1982 summit of the
Organization of African
Unity continue to be the
focus of African
- diplomacy six 1 weeks
after the OAU adjourn
ed its meeting in Tripoli,
Libya, for lack of a
quorum. ' '
Zambian President
Kenneth ' Kaunda em
barked upon a six-nation
tour last week to drum
up support for a summit
before the end of the
year, as stipulated by the
organization's charter.
At the end of
Kaunda's talks with the
current chairman of the
OAU, President Daniel
Arap Moi of Kenya, the
two leaders released a
statement calling the cur
rent impasse a "tem
porary split" and urging
a "dynamic com
promise" among OAU
members to ensure a
quorum for a 19th sum
mit of the organization.
The failure to gain
representation' from 34
states, two-thirds of the
OAU membership; is
tied largely to the seating
of the Saharan Arab
Democratic Republic
(SADR) as the 51st
member of the OAU last
February.
Morocco has been in
volved in a costly guer
rilla 'war with the
SADR's POLISARIO
Front for control over
the Western Sahara.
Nineteen delegations, led j
by Morocco, walked out
of February's routine
ministerial meeting when
the SADR was admitted
by OAU Secretary
General Edem Kodjo.
Supporters of
POLISARIO have also
boycotted OAU sessions,
leaving the organization
incapable of convening a
continent-wide meeting
since February.
A number of countries
also said they boycotted
the summit meeting in
Tripoli as a protest
against the foreign
dinary summit of , the
organization to setde the
' conflict between Moroc
co and the SADR before
the regular summit can
be convened.
Although the five days
of talks among represen-
ntatives , from 30 coun
. tries presenr in Tripoli ,
received little attention,
from ' the international
press, ? a 1 number of
leaders endorsed the
meeting as being con
structive. And a com
mentary in New African
magazine suggested that
"it might have been
worse" had a severely
disrupted summit been
convened.
Although the five days
of talks among represen
tatives of the 30 coun
tries present in Tripoli
received tittle attention
from the international
press, a number of
leaders endorsed the
meeting as being con
structive. And a com
mentary in New African
magazine suggested that
"it might have been
worse" had a severely
disrupted summit been
convened.
"I have attended a
number of conferences,"
Tanzanian President
Julius Nyerere told the
assembled delegates,
"and have never seen as
many leaders, nor as
much importance given
them." Nyerere con
tinued: "They usually
. make speeches and leave
the conference.
However, in this con
ference they sit for
hours, contribute and
discuss issues until the
end."
Heads of state and
government from the
front-line states of
southern Africa compris
ed a solid block for the
meetings, and the final
resolutions of the infor
mal summit reflect con
1 tinued support for the in
dependence struggle in'
; Namibia and for the
liberation movements of
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St. Paul's College
Convocation Sept. 17
LAWRENCEVILLE.
Va Saint' Paul's Col
lege will hold its 1982
Fall Convocation in the
Memorial Chapel Fri
day, September 17 at
10:30 a.m. '
Dr. S. Dallas Sim
mons, President of the
College, will be the Con
vocation speaker.
. Dr. Simmons was
born in Ahoskie, having
earned both baccalaurate
and master's degrees at
North Carolina Central
University. In 1977 he
received his Doctor of
Philosophy degree from
Duke University.
Dr. Simmons' ' ex
periences include serving
as director of data pro
cessing, at Norfolk State
University and staff
assistant to President
Gerald Ford. Prior to
coming to Saint Paul's
College as its fifth Chief
Administator, he held
the position of ' Vice
Chancellor for Universi
ty Relations at NCCU.
The public is invited to
attend the ceremony.
Saint Paul's College is
an Episcopal church
related, 4-year, fully ac
credited, co-educational
institution with a diverse
liberal arts academic
program.
(iALVKSTON, TF.XAS A Texas Parole It.mr.l
officer short ci raited normal procedure and freed a
man sentenced to life in prison for a slashing attack
to which mass killer Coral F.ugene Watts confessed.
Howard W. Wosley, 25, freed walks away from jail
with his wile l.vnn (I,) and Mother Ms. Bertha
Ware(R). HPIPholo
New Charges Of Covert
Action By Pretoria
IAN On August 18, the
Zimbabwean govern
ment announced that its
troops killed three white
commandoes who were
members of the South
African Defense Forces
(SADF). Zimbabwean
Prime Minister Robert
Mugabe further claimed
that the infiltrators, kill
ed 20 miles inside the
border, near Sengwe,
were part of a South
African plot to mount an
extensive military
destabilization cam
paign. Pretoria initially
dismissed the charges.
But now, three weeks',
later, a number of
revelations about the in
cident have generated
further suspicions about
South African covert ac-
know the country well.
We also go into Mozam
bique because we used to
raid there during the
war. But we're fed up
with the SADF for turn
ing around and
dissociating themselves
from the guys killed in
Zimbabwe."
Thousands of white '
soldiers and some blacks
left Zimbabwe for the
SADF when' Prime
Minister Mugabe's
government came to
.power in April 1980.
' Many of them were in
the Selous Scouts,
Special Air Services and
the Rhodesian Light In
fantry, all of which
specialized in commando
raids on villages and
guerrilla camps in both
Zimbabwe and Mozam
bique. For, its part, the South
African military has
stated that some 17
SADF troops, three
white and 14 black; all of
them former Rhodesian
soldiers, took part in a
renegade incursion into
Zimbabwe beginning
August 15. According to
the official account, the
group sought to infiltrate
southeastern Zimbabwe
and free a number of
political detainees there..
After making contact
with Zimbabwean
troops, August 18, the
SADF says, , the 14 black
soldiers retreated and
made their way back to
the base in the northern
Transvaal. - The three
white officers, however,
stayed to fight and were
killed.
The report in the Sun
day Mail quotes the
disaffected soldieYs as
saying that South Africa
has a special
"destabilization center"
inside defense head
quarters in Pretoria,
working to weaken
neighboring black states.
One of South Africa's
operations, it is believed,
is to support the Mozam
bique resistance known
as the MNR, an anti
government group that is
crippling the Mozam
bican economy through
sabotage acts.
The Sunday Mail says
ihat South Africa has
begun supplying the
MNR with arms, food,
and medical supplies by
airdrop.
Sources in the Zim
babwe military say they
believe the SADF com
mandoes killed Auuusi
18 had been involved in a
similar sabotage opera
tion. Documents
recovered from the
bodies afterward, they
said, indicated that the
group planned to
sabotage the vital
railway line to Maputo
harbor in Mozambique.
This track is carrying an
increasing amount of
Zimbabwe's imports and
exports, according to the
Sundav Mail.
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southern Africa as well
poHclearefLtbyairteadc
Cni Miinmmarnarfftafi with these southern' late August, the South
African movements, the
delegation from the
SADR offered to turn
over to them South
African arms captured
from Moroccan troops.
(POLISARIO guerrillas
of the SADR . have
displayed South African
weapons in the past, and
just last week the British
Broadcasting Corpora
tion reported Morocco
had placed an order for
$26 million worth of
arms from the South
Africans three years
ago.)
The resolutions
adopted by the group of
30 in Tripoli and
reported in the final
"Tripoli Declaration"
include:
Condemnation of
South Africa's apartheid
system and its
destabilization of
southern Africa;
Support for Nami
bian independence;
Condemnation of
Israel for its aggression
against Palestinian and
Arab peoples;
Reaffirmation of
support for the SADR in
the Western Sahara, urg
ing the SADR and
Morocco to "consider
ways and means to end
their conflict"; and
Criticism of Chad's
new strongman, Hissein
Habre, who is blamed
for the "return of civil
war since the departure
of Libyan troops" from
Chad.
By all acounts, there is
near unanimity among
African leaders about
the importance of preser
ving the OAU. Even
after the cooling-off
period of the last six
weeks, however, the
precise terms of an ac
:eptable compromise
have yet, to be found,
and the group that met in
Tripoli is still four short
f a quorum.
Leaders from the 30
African countries who
did attend an informal
summit in Tripoli releas
ed a statement at the end
of five days of talks,
condemning "im
perialist" influence in
.Africa and pointing a
finger at the United
States for the summit's
.collapse.
Col. Qaddafi accused
the U.S. of "open acts of
bribing some African
presidents" to stay away
from the summit, while
Zambia's Kaunda
generally a friend to the
West put the blame on
"exploitive international
capital."
Though the Reagan
administration remains a
: staunch ally of Morocco
and a sworn foe of
Libya's , Qaddafi,
Washington denies the
charges levelled by the
African leaders.
If a summit is conven
ed, Qaddafi will become
the next chairman of the
OAU and in that capaci
,ty will represent Africa
in a speech to the United
Nations General
Assembly.
Meanwhile, diplomats
from a committee of five
.nations picked at the in
formal summit Zam
bia, Tanzania, Congo,
Mali and Libya are
fanning out over the con- -tinent
in an eleventh
hour effort to gain sup
port for this year's sum
mit. African states, they
are arguing, must speak'
with one voice in the in-;
ternational arena, pre
sent a solid front of op
position to South
Africa's white regime,
and launch economic
development plans for
the future.
A number of countries
that did not attend the
meetings in Tripoli have
called for an extraor-
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Africans admitted that
the slain men were
members of its armed
yorces, though officials
r . i . . . . f . t j.
stressea tnai ine soiaiers
had been on an
"unauthorized" mis
sion. And most recently,
according to a report in
Zimbabwe's national
newpaper, the Sunday
Mail, several SADF.
soldiers involved in
similar operations are
calling., the official ver
sion of events a lie.
From the Zimbabwe
capital, correspondent
Andy Meld rum reports:
HARARE Angered
by the South African
Defence Force's'
disavowal of their dead
comrades, a number of
SADF members have
told journalists that they
are regularly deployed in
raids on neighboring
black states, according
to a report published
September 5 in the Sun
day Mail.
The South African
soldiers said to be the
sources of the story are
all former members of
the Rhodesian military.
They are bitter because
the SADF has maintain
ed that the three white
officers killed last month
in Zimbabwe were on an
unauthorized mission."
Their families, conse
quently, are ineligible for
insurance or pension'
benefits. ,
, "They were on an
authorized mission and
now they're being
disowned," said one
angry soldier. "We're
being treated as cannon
fodder." ..... w
Datelined Pretoria,
the story of these former
Rhodesian troops is said
td have been given first
to journalists in South
Africa. When the jour
nalists called the SADF,
for comment, j however,
they were warned that
publication of the story'
would constitute a viola
tion of the nation's strict
security legislation. ,
The . soldiers told
reporters that they had
been used by South
Africa . on Other
clandestine commando
raids. "We know the,
ropes," one said. "We
operate in . Zimbabwe
because we obviously
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