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Nov. 20, 1989: World Notes:Namibia
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 53
World Notes
NAMIBIA
Patience and Clenched Fists
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<p> Mile-long lines of patient first-time voters snaked toward
polling booths under a broiling sun last week as Namibia held
United Nations-supervised elections that will lead the territory
to independence after 74 years of South African control. So
great was the enthusiasm that more than 90% of the country's
701,000 eligible voters cast ballots.
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<p> The leftist SWAPO Party, which led a guerilla war against
South Africa for 23 years, is expected to win a majority of the
72 seats in the National Assembly, but the key question will be
the size of its victory. If SWAPO gains two-thirds of the
seats, it will be able to frame the country's new constitution
on its own terms. But observers believed the voting procedures
would limit SWAPO's prospects. Example: since about half the
voters were illiterate, many were likely to be confused by the
fact that nine of the ten contending parties had ballot symbols
that were similiar to SWAPO's clenched fist.
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