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In effect, South African Prime Minister John Vorster has been playing the artful dodger. He is trying to mollify the Western powers by accepting their plan, but, above all, he hopes to help the Turnhalle Alliance win the elections. If that happens, the South Africans may never have to withdraw their troops and may be able to keep Walvis Bay as well. So last week's raid was a calculated gamble.
Its chances of success were reduced at week's end when the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn the South Africans' incursion and to demand their withdrawal from Angola.