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...commander, have been encouraged by the first steps toward integrating the guerrillas into the new national army and are prepared to stay on for the time being (see box). Mugabe's victory has also caused concern among whites in South Africa. After the election, Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha told his National Party followers that some apartheid laws-such as those banning interracial marriage and sex could be relaxed in order to defuse mounting pressures for social and political change. Said Botha: "This country cannot live as an island." But his proposed reforms fell far short of black African...
...Zimbabwe election has hardened Botha's stance on Namibia (South West Africa). South Africa continues to govern the territory in spite of repeated United Nations demands for self-determination. Mugabe's victory has left white-ruled South Africa more isolated than ever behind a ring of less-than-friendly black states; consequently, there now seems to be little chance that the Pretoria government will agree to internationally supervised elections in Namibia. Instead, South Africa-backed parties in the huge territory may be tempted to go ahead with their own version of unilateral independence. If that happens Namibia might...
March 4: South African Prime Minister Botha admits that South Africa has developed nuclear weapons, thanking IBM, GE and the Bell Laboratories for their assistance in the project. In neighboring Zimbabwe/Rhodesia Popular Front guerrillas resume attacks in the civil war. Botha calls for an immediate end to the combat, threatening to "turn Mozambique into a parking...
November 21: Soviet leader Alexandr Solzhenitsyn praises "revival of moral fiber of the West." Begin, Thatcher, Gandhi, Marcos and Botha send messages of support to Carter...
...Botha has a particularly difficult tune of it, since he must somehow obscure the ugly face of racist discrimination. But to translate apartheid as "good neighborliness" is the height of cynicism. One might as well refer to murder as "giving someone a well-deserved rest...