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...armed invasion, complete with armored vehicles and aircraft. Just before the South African force began to withdraw at the end of five days, the Angolans threatened to deploy against the intruders some of the estimated 20,000 Cuban troops based in the country. South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha called Angola's charges exaggerated; had the Angolan army not "interfered," he told Parliament, the incursion would have gone unnoticed, like others before, as a routine hot-pursuit operation against SWAPO guerrillas. At least ten South African soldiers were reported killed...
...While members of South Africa's ruling National Party shifted uncomfortably in their green leather seats, Colin Eglin of the opposition Progressive Federal Party last week sent his questions ringing across the chamber of Cape Town's Parliament. The angry counterattack from South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha: "I am not a weakling who tries to satisfy everybody. I have my own ideas and pattern for leading South Africa." Some of Botha's ministers have echoed similar pious themes...
Those ideas for moderating South Africa's rigidly segregationist policies of apartheid show every sign of being far weaker than Botha had once promised. Two years ago, Botha told his fellow Afrikaners they must "adapt or die" in confronting racial segregation. Using the same moralistic tones, he later declared: "I am more convinced than ever that there is only one course to follow: do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...South African Parliament began its summer session last week, Botha backed off. He dismissed the possibility of letting non-whites vote. Indeed, he categorically rejected any role in national decision making by the country's 19.8 million blacks, who make up 71.5% of South Africa's population. He indicated that any change in the inferior status of the country's nonwhite minorities (Indians, Chinese, mixed race) would be deferred until 1983 at the earliest. Botha also lashed out at liberal white South Africans who criticize his government's apartheid policies, implicitly branding them as agitators. Said...
...reason for Botha's retrenchment lies in last April's national elections. Al though his party retained 131 of 165 parliamentary seats, it still suffered the worst setback of its 33 years in power. The moderate Progressive Federal Party gained nine seats (to a still ineffectual 27). But Botha was far more concerned about the rise in popularity of the ultraright Herstigte (Reformed) Nasionale Party (H.N.P.), which strongly advocates continued white privilege, black subjection and rigid racial segregation of all kinds...