Windhoek Natives Prefer Hovels in Show of Enmity Toward White Regime - The place where Africans live is a filthy, weed-choked district of tin shacks made from flattened oil drums. The whites who run Windhoek want the Africans to move into a new comfortable, spacious township with neat brick homes that have running water and lavatories. But most Africans refuse to move. Their refusal comes from resentment against white paternalism, opposition to South African apartheid, and the determination to dramatize this resentment and opposition. The conflict could create an international incident that would embroil the United Nations. The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution more than a year ago that said South-West Africa, a former German colony, would be transferred from the administration of South Africa to that of the United Nations. But the United Nations has been unable to enforce the resolution...

Despite World Body's Resolutions, Vast Region Remains in Hands of South Africa - There was an air of amused wonder here recently when a planeload of Americans tried to test whether the United Nations had control of South-West Africa. It seemed like the theater of the absurd to the white residents of Windhoek. Despite all the resolutions passed by the United Nations, this dry land the size of France is firmly in the hands of South Africa. In fact, it's almost a fifth province of South Africa now. The United Nations is only a distant and wispy shadow. Of course, the six Americans knew this. Led by George M. Houser, executive director of the American Committee on Africa, the Americans wanted to dramatize the impotency of the United Nations in trying to enforce its year-old resolution declaring South-West Africa a direct responsibility of the United Nations. Without visas, the Americans flew toward Windhoek last Wednesday. South African police refused them permission to land, and the plane flew back to Zambia...