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Signed by 164 students, the petition stated that "by refusing to end its complicity with the Botha regime, Harvard is manifesting a gross lack of sensitivity to injustices against peoples of color...
...nine racial categories that determine where he can live and work. But people can have their classification changed if they can prove they were put in a wrong group. The result is apartheid's own crazy game of musical chairs, as illustrated last week by Home Affairs Minister Stoffel Botha's announcement of last year's racial reclassifications...
...question of what opponents can do about it. The Reagan Administration maintains that the way to influence South Africa's white minority government is to continue doing business with the country. Others, including South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, claim economic sanctions are a way to get P.W. Botha's government to change its policy. Last week anyone seeking to choose between the two opinions had reason to be more confused than ever...
...Botha and his governing National Party candidates swung into action, it appeared that their real opponent was not South Africa's other political parties but the U.S. Government. In his speech opening the campaign, Botha bemoaned the "prejudice, abuse and dishonesty South Africa had to endure at the hands of cynical and sanctimonious antagonists abroad." Lest there be any doubt about the target, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, who is no relation to the President, candidly admitted that his party would be tapping the "strong anti-U.S. feeling in this country." It is time, he said, "to show...
State President Botha enters the campaign confident that his strategy will keep in power the National Party, which has ruled the country since 1948. He assumes that South Africa's white voters want a period of calm after so much turbulence. Since Botha declared a national state of emergency last June, incidents of political violence have dwindled to just a handful a day. According to government figures, the number of deaths in racial conflicts dropped from 665 to 251 between the first and the second half of last year. Under the country's harsh press restrictions, no violent incidents...