The World - News from Sept. 13, 1989
Anton Lubowski, the only white to hold a leadership post in the South-West Africa People’s Organization guerrilla movement, was assassinated outside his suburban Windhoek home, police said. Lubowski, 37, was an unofficial spokesman for SWAPO, the Namibian independence movement that had waged a bush war against South African rule of the territory since 1966. Lubowski was also a member of SWAPO’s election directorate, which is overseeing the movement’s campaign for U.N.-supervised elections scheduled for early November. South Africa has agreed to grant independence, expected by early next year, as part of a regional peace accord also calling for withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola.
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