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...case restrictions on trade with South Africa, significantly loosening the controls imposed by former President Jimmy Carter four years ago. At about the same time, the federal government's most recent envoy to the apartheid-ruled nation cautioned U.S. officials to avoid making statements that could anger the ruling Botha regime. Those twin developments make it all the more imperative that other U.S. institutions from Congress on down to corporations and universities act vigorously to reprove South Africa for its repressive and discriminatory system...
...have long counseled against any case-by-case approach because it would strip the University of the moral leverage of an absolute ban, and because, in others' hands, it has proven unable to sway the repressive Botha regime. And we continue to favor total divestiture of Harvard's holdings in all corporations that deal with South Africa...
...first time since negotiations on independence for Namibia broke down at Geneva in January 1981, the South African government has agreed to preliminary Western proposals that would eventually allow majority black rule in the territory. Still, for South Africa, the stakes are high. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was interviewed by TIME Chief of Correspondents Richard L. Duncan, Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark and Reporter Peter Hawthorne in Cape Town about the prospects of a lasting settlement. Excerpts from their conversation...
...though, those gains are endangered. The Corporation appears ready to junk its commitment not to place its funds in banks doing business with the Botha government, not to, in effect, lend money to fund apartheid. Through the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the Corporation gave indications last week that they would consider the nature of any loans to the government. Were they "humanitarian" in nature, they might be allowed...
Certainly apartheid is morally indefensible; equally certainly, majority rule should eventually occur. But it must not occur immediately. As Prime Minister Botha said recently, "We must adapt or die." Those who call for immediate majority rule--and the concomitant bloodshed of revolution--pave the way for needless death and suffering...