Word: apartheid
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...ambition in South Africa to cohabit with a white person. It's nonsense. Who introduced these laws in the first place? And now we must praise them because they've suddenly discovered they don't need these laws. Yet if the government said it was going to abolish apartheid laws one, two, three--the dramatic impact could change the mood...
...They are in a Catch-22 position when they say they won't talk until the unrest has been quelled. The unrest is not going to be quelled because apartheid is there. Botha has everything to gain from talking to blacks, because he could be saying to the world, "Look, I'm talking to these horrible people who are always criticizing me and who are anti-South African." The world would say, "Yes, Botha is reasonable, he does talk to his critics." We would have lost. I would be losing out too, because even to say I am willing...
...leaders gave speeches--dozens of them. Some condemned apartheid; some bemoaned the escalating arms race; some pleaded for a more efficient, assertive U.N. to deal with the world's woes. Many stepped straight from the General Assembly rostrum to a small room nearby to help TIME Photographer Eddie Adams memorialize the week in an unusual way. One by one, waving his or her national flag, each struck a pose in salute to the U.N.'s 40th birthday. Herewith a selection from that gallery...
There was thus little reason for the critics of apartheid, South Africa's system of racial separation, to moderate their tones as they continued last week to shower opprobrium on the Botha regime. At the United Nations' 40th anniversary celebration, high officials from at least a dozen nations stood to denounce the Pretoria government and demand measures against it. "If you don't apply sanctions," President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia warned the leaders of developed nations with investments in South Africa, "hundreds of thousands of people will die and the investments will go up in flames...
...British Commonwealth did impose sanctions, though British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made sure they were much milder than originally proposed. The Commonwealth's declaration threatened stronger action--for example, the prohibition of new investment--by individual countries if Pretoria did not begin moving toward the abolition of apartheid within six months. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada threatened to sever all his country's diplomatic and economic ties with South Africa if the dismantling of apartheid did not begin soon. Mulroney told the U.N., "This institutionalized contempt for justice and dignity desecrates international standards of morality and arouses universal revulsion...