UNMD (UN Mission on Detainees), Viall, John, 217, 298 173 Vislykh, Viktor, 46 UNMOs, 169 Volunteers (interviewing of), 60 UNPROFOR,379-80 Von Bismarck, Chancellor Otto, 5 I. UNTAC, 380-1 Von Hirschbc;rg, Ambassador Carl, 28, UNTAG, 3, 21-2, 145 93, 119, 163, 247, 249, 298 accommodation, 154 Von Trotha, General Lothar, 6 badges, 254 Von Trotha's decree, 6 i bumper stickers, 254 Voter education, 181 l civil-military relations, 157 Voting age, 208 commencement date, 48 patterns, 331 deployment of, 163 process, conspiracy, 209 last monitoring post in Angola, 160 qualifications, 208 mandate extension, 357 turnout, 326, 329 military component, 148, 150, 152 military component, reduction of, 39 Waldheim, UN Secretary-General Kurt, military observers in Angola, 120 21,22, 133, 165 military role, 158 Walvis Bay, 5, 329 outreach work, 187 WEOs (West European and Others), 46 policemen, 223 Western Contact Group ambassadors, reduction ofmilitary component, 36 223 transport company, 51 White immigration, 6 UNTAG's all-party meetings, 256 settlers, 6, 8 centres, 183-5, 254 Wild West, vii farewell reception, 367 Windhoek, vi funding, 378 altitude, 4 Cedric Thornberry, an i1lternationallawyer who comesfrom Belfast humanitarian networks, 191 Windhoek Observer, 270 in Ireland, has in rece1lt decades defended human rights in many information capacity, 213 Windhoek Press Club, reception, 366 crisis situations throughout the world - as afounderofthe Northern networks, 183 Wind ofchange, speech, v Ireland civil rights movement in the 60s; in the European Court of personnel, 185-6 Winter, Bishop Colin, vii, 15 Human Rights in the 70s; reporting for The Guardian from Athens women, 63-4 Witbooi, Nama ChiefHendrik, 6 during the Greek military dictatorship; working to establish free UNTAG-A, 159 Wood, Bishop Richard, vii, 16 and fair elections in the Caucasus countries; organising the lifting Urquhart, Sir Brian, 24, 50, 67, 375 Woods, Jim, US Assistant Secretary of ofsieges in Sarajevo and Mostar; negotiating democratic elections State (Defence Dept), 113 in Cambodia (where he convened the first-ever public debate Van Dunem, Foreign Minister, 316, 346 Wren, Christopher, 77 between its political leaders). He is also an experienced peacekeeper, Van Heerden, Neil, 28, 92, 108 who has mediated cease-fires and humanitarian initiatives in more Venter, Piet, 279, 281, 283-7 Year of independence, 360 than a dozen warring countries, and has helped train senior officers Verification ofelections, 205 Young black nationalists, 16 for NATO peacekeeping. Joining the UN in 1978 to help plan and process, 216 negotiate Namibian independence. he became ChiefAide to Martti Verster, General Victor (Vic), 55, 223 Zimbabwe peace process, 132 Ahtissari, the UN's Special Representative there. Later, as an Verwoerd, Minister ofNative Affairs, 12 Zimbabwean Patriotic Front, 291 international consultant, he has been a professor ofpeace studies in Derry and defence studies in . He has an honorary doctorate from the British-based Open University and is an honorary fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has six grown-up children and lives (mostly) in .

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