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Pretoria's anointed Democratic Turnhalle Alliance was proclaimed the winner of the Pretoria-run December 1978 elections for a constituent assembly in Namibia, where South Africa continues its defiance of the United Nations. • Seven years ago, Abisai Shejavali came to the U.S. from in Namibia to study on a Lutheran World Federation scholarship at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. In July 1978, after Pastor Shejavali had received his Ph D. from Dubuque's Aquinas Institute of Theology he and his family returned to Namibia. Horst Kleinschmidt, born in Namibia, assistant to the director of the Christian Institute (CI), was detained in 1975 under the Terrorism Act. He went into exile in early 1976, and his is now an external representative of CI. His two-page account of the 'unofficial' terror in South Africa appears here. • Article about election fraud in Namibia by Justin Ellis, who was expelled from Namibia by the South African administrator general on the eve of Pretoria's unilateral elections there. Contents: Namibia - Whittling Away • Welcome Home • Namibian Election Fraud • Pastoral Letter to Namibian Congregations • Response to the South African Administered Election in Namibia And Support for the Positions of the Namibian Churches, the Southwest Africa People's Organization and the Secretary General of the United Nations • Press Statement of the Council of Churches in Namibia

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