ABSTRACT
Africa has an enormous potential—in human talent, in resources to be developed, in energy to be harnessed. A negative, reactive American policy that seeks only to oppose Soviet or Cuban involvement in Africa would be both dangerous and futile. In Namibia a solution leading to independence is being sought through the efforts of the several Western members of the Security Council with South Africa, the United Nations, and other interested parties, including the South West Africa People's Organization. That solution would include free elections in which the United Nations is involved, freedom for political prisoners, repeal of discriminatory laws and regulations, and the withdrawal of instruments of South African authority as the elections are held and independence achieved. One of the most significant events in modern African history—and in the international effort to promote human rights—was the recent decision by Commonwealth countries to condemn the "massive violation of human rights" in Uganda.
