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Washington's new plan for Namibian independence calls for assembling an "expert panel" to write a national constitution that would guarantee rights to the white minority. Only then would national elections be called. The framework of the scheme was outlined by Haig to South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha during Botha's May visit to Washington...
...fiercely proud, tribally insular Afrikaner elite faces an increasingly irreconcilable dilemma: how to avoid massive civil unrest and bloodshed without relinquishing at least some power to the overwhelmingly nonwhite majority. The 2½-year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 65, has tried to make a beginning by limiting discriminatory practices like segregation at public facilities, lifting bans against mixed sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum...
...expansion of Soviet influence is the struggle in black Namibia (SouthWest Africa), which is trying to gain independence from white-ruled South Africa. Elections in Namibia would probably lead to a Marxist government. Reagan and Haig both met last week with South African Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha and they agreed to support a formula that would guarantee the rights of the white minority before any elections are held...
...domestic front, although Botha reiterated his pledge to accommodate all "legitimate personal and group aspirations," he devoted more attention to explaining what he would not do for blacks than on elaborating his earlier promises...
...ruled out the possibility that blacks could ever own property in white urban areas. One of his ministers assured audiences that the government still spends eight times as much on educating a white child as on a black. Even so, many National Party rallies were poorly attended, and Botha and other campaigners were subjected to severe heckling by right-wing rowdies. In the end, the National Party suffered a 7% decline in its popular vote total. Trying to put the best face on the election results, Botha claimed to be satisfied. "We have enough public support to continue undaunted with...