EditorialDirk Mudge, a politician in what was then South West Africa, played a pivotal, if sometimes controversial, role in the struggle for independence and the creation of Namibia, on Dec. 30, 1980. (Joseph Lelyveld/The New York Times)
EditorialDirk Mudge, a politician in what was then South West Africa, played a pivotal, if sometimes controversial, role in the struggle for independence and the creation of Namibia, on Dec. 30, 1980. (Joseph Lelyveld/The New York Times)