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...wake of the latest punitive measures against South Africa, State President P.W. Botha charged that his government's efforts to reform apartheid were being ignored by other countries. In a ceremony that opened a medical center in Cape Province, Botha called sanctions "anti-South African legislation." He added that "the U.S. has already declared an economic war against us for the most absurd and sanctimonious reasons. In doing so, they have yet again taken up the sword against us on behalf of the Soviet Union and its goals in this region. I find it revolting." As others find apartheid, which...
Professor Mendelsohn also agrees that disinvestment will further promote the Afrikaaner "laager mentality" but dismisses this point as unimportant. I believe he severely underestimates the stubborness that this involves, as evidenced by the state President P.W. Botha's statement to business leaders last week that he would not increase the pace of reform as it would look as if he was giving in to international pressures. The Afrikaaner desire to forcefully assert independence intensifies opposition to local reform...
...harsh enough insult. When South African State President P.W. Botha paid a "private visit" to France last week, he was greeted at Orly Airport not by Premier Jacques Chirac, as diplomatic practice would normally dictate, but by the Foreign Ministry's chief of protocol. Chirac explained the snub by saying that any contact with Botha "would be considered a breach of solidarity with our African friends...
...Botha was in France to dedicate a museum to the South African dead in the two World Wars, but even those ceremonies were skipped by the French Secretary of State for Veterans. If French officialdom seemed intent on ignoring Botha, , others were not. In Paris, three bombs exploded at the headquarters of companies with links to South Africa. No one was hurt. The terrorist group Action Directe took responsibility for the blasts...
...kind of get a feel for what Buthelezi is about by the people who support him--Silber, [South African President P.W.] Botha, President Reagan," Morrow said...