WORLD : S. Africa Delays Namibia Elections
<i> From Times staff and wire service reports</i>
WINDHOEK, Namibia —
South Africa warned today that Namibian independence elections will have to be postponed because of a raging bush war and canceled talks about the vote with U.N. officials.
Pretoria’s senior representative in Namibia, Administrator-General Louis Pienaar, told a news conference that incursions by guerrillas of the South-West Africa People’s Organization have jeopardized the possibility of holding the elections on schedule in November.
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