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          Conference. At a press conference, Lonati said that the Con-
          ference would be held at Manila in September 1980.
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          March 19, 1979
          Negotiations Near Collapse
          UN Pushes SG's Election Plan
          As so often before in the tor-
          tuous history of the negotiations
          On the future of Namibia, the
          carefuliy drawn independence
          plan endorsed by the U.N.
          Security Council last September
          teetered on the brink of collapse
          as the U.S. and four other
          Western nations proposed yet
          another New York conference, in
          a desperate bid to stave off
          disaster.
          This time the omens were
          grimmer than before, with the
          mineral-rich territory's South
          African rulers apparently
          determined not to give another
          inch and the SWAPO guerrilla
          movement quite. as adamant on
          its side.
          Namibja Adversaries Criticise
          U.N. Plan
          Short of a near-miracle.. th
          311 1fl !epefl Te r f r
          acceptable to the U.N. appeared
          headed for an ignominjou end.
          South Afriean Prime Min J , ,-
          force which is one of the key
          elements.
          At press time. Secretary of
          State Cyrus R. Vance, British
          Foreign Secretary David Owen.
          Canadjan External Affairs
          Minister Donald Jamieson and
          
          U.S. Mission to the U.N. were
          representatives of the five so-
          called front-line states: Angola,
          Botswana, Mozambique, Tan-
          zania and Zambia.
          UnUl a final communique, no
          one was willing to rule out the
          resurrection fo the settlement
          plan. which involves the dispatch
          of a 7,500-man U.N. army and
          more than 1,000 civilian ofljcjajs
          to the Namibia to supervise and
          control pre-independence elec-
          tions. After President Carter's
          experience of Egyptian-Israeli
          peacemaking, in which he ap-
          pears to have snatched victory
          from the jaws f near-certain
          defeat, even the most pessimistic
          U.N. diplomats wanted to hedge
          eir ets.
          Outcome of Negotiations BP0005 89
          negotiations were seldom better
          illustrated than by that .New York
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          Pieter W. Botha and Foreign
          Minister Roelof F. Botha con-
          tinued to make hostile statements
          about Secretary-General
          Waldheim's proposals for im
          plementing the nationhood plan,
          and SWAPO President Sam
          Nujoma çritized the proposed
          composition of the U.N. security
          A draft Convention on Inter-
          national Multimodal Transport
          has been completed after more
          than five years of preparatory
          work under the aegis of the
          United Nations Conference On
          Trade and Development (UN-
          CTADL
          The draft Convention will be
          submitted to a United Nations
          Conference of Plenipotentiaries.
          to be convened in November.
          According to M.E Selvig. of
          Norway. Chairman of the
          Intergovernmental Preparatory
          Committee for all the six sessions
          held since 1973. the draft Con-
          vention constitutes a good basis
          for the work of the forthcoming
          Conference of Plenipotentiaries
          The draft Convention contains
          six substantive parts dealing with
          general provisions on the scope of
          the Convention; the issue, con-
          tent, and evidentiary effect of
          the multimodal transport
          documents: liability of the
          sioner for Namibia and Spec-
          ial Representative of the Sec.
          retary-Generat for Namibia.
          the deputy foreign ministers of
          France and West Germany
          prepared for a crucial face-off
          with Roelof Botha. Also
          scheduled to join the talks at the
          Transport
          multimodal transport operator
          for loss; damage or delay to the
          goods entrusted to him; liability
          of the consignor of the goods:
          claims and actions in connection
          with recovery for loss, damage.
          or delay of goods. and
          miscellaneous provisions.
          Selvig ‘observes that th.e in-
          creased utilization of cargoes in
          the past decade -- the use of
          containers or pallets that allow
          door-to-door transport without
          the need to break bulk at fran-
          shipment points -- has given a
          strong impetus o the growth of
          multimodal transport operations
          The new Con cntiori. according
          to Selvig. woutd establish an
          international legal regime to
          which the contracts and
          documents devised by com-
          mercial interests would have to
          conform.
          The Convention would also set
          international legally binding
          (Co”tnued on Paqe 20)
          Limjis Home, Pact1ess ' the very
          day the president obtained Egypt
          and Israel's agreement to his
          proposals, putting a treaty pretty
          well in the bag.
          But the tee1in persisted in
          U.N. circles that, in the Namibia
          case, South Africa was never 100
          per cent committed to ac-
          ceptance of the Western plan,
          while SWAPO might prefer a
          continuation of the bush war to a
          test of its political strength in
          free, U.N.- supervised elections
          in the territory.
          As a press conference in
          Johannesburg on his return from
          a protracted visit to Europe, the
          South African foreign minister
          said his white minority gover-
          nmeht was not prepared to
          renegotiate the settlement
          proposals.
          Military ActIon Intensifies
          Botha also questioned the
          usefulness of the New York talks.
          Meanwhile, according to the
          Angola defense ministry, a Soutk
          African force of infantry and
          armor, with air support,
          penetrated 10 miles inside Angola
          from Namihia in a new strike
          against an aIIe ed SWAP() base
          in this neighuoring black African
          state.
          Bombs and rockets were used
          in support of the ground action in
          the Cahama area, the ministry
          said
          South Africa Objects
          ToSWAPO Base Proposal
          South Africa's principal ob-
          lConttnuea on Page 20)
          1. .
          UNCTAD Drafts Meeting
          On Multimodal
          diplomatic_ ouc ,j
          13' l' twniu
          The United Nations Association of New York sponsored a
          public forum on “The United Nations Today and Tomorrow.”
          British Ambassador lvor Richard the guest speaker. Alas for
          Richard, if the polls are to be believed his U.N. term may be
          limited. If the Conservative party wins the upcoming elec-
          tions, Richard, a Laborite, would be replaced,
          Richards boss, Foreign Secretary David Owen, visiting
          China next month, his first visit to Peking in that capacity.
          Delegates saddened by the death of Per Haekkerup, who
          attended several sessions of the General Assembly as foreign
          minister of Denmark and was one of first Western leaders to
          call for action to tem South Africa's racist excesses.
          Juliet Ofori-Mankata of Ghana, Remi Puissegur from
          France, and Kate McAnaney of the United States chosen to
          • rng the Japanese peacebell at the U.N. heralding the spring
          • equinox on Earth Day. John McConnell, founder of the annual
          celebration, reports that 900 city schools lined up to par-
          ticoaje. Juiet, 11, Remi, 9, and Kate, 11, attended an Earth
          Day press conference, along with Jean Young, cochairman of
          the program.
          Ignoring a Security Council appeal, the Senate Foreign
          Relations Committee voted in favor of sending an American
          observer team To Rhodesia to monitor those April 20 elections
          in the Former British colony.
          Islamic leaders in Iran accused of instigating attacks on the
          Bahai rehgious community, in a ..statement by Victor de
          Arao 1 o Bahai represenifative at the U.N. The Bahal has
          NC,.O consultative status.
          Eric Gairy, whose interest in UFO's got the U.N. involved in
          the phenomena, deposed in a bloodless coup while he was in
          New York for talks with Secretary-General Waldheim, Gairy,
          prime minister of Grenada at the time, called Waldheim to
          cancel their meeting, pleading “events in my country.” Later,
          he asked the U.S. and Britain to help put down the uprising.
          Tc o new permanent representatives: Noel Sinclair of
          u,'ana and tJmberto Larocca of Italy. Larocca Egyptian.
          :)Or
          Former Ugandan permanent representative Grace Ibingira,
          no . a U.N. consultant, appealed in a statement to the Uganda
          army to revolt against Idi Amin. Ibingira, who was imprisoned
          by the former government, urged his compatriots to make
          sure “such tyranny shall never come again to our land.”
          (C,,n n,ed on P39e 2)
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