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...Soviet-built plane crashed 200 yards inside South Africa's frontier with Mozambique about 30 miles south of this border town, said the South African foreign minister, R.F. Botha...
...called for an abrupt end to the Reagan Administration policy of "constructive engagement," through which Washington sought to nudge South Africa into gradually liberalizing its system of apartheid. Instead, Congress adopted measures designed to bring about social change by exerting economic pressure on the government of State President P.W. Botha...
...nation's economy. They warned, as Reagan did, that any hardships that do result will most likely affect South Africa's 24 million mostly poor blacks, as well as neighboring black African states whose economies are linked to Pretoria's. "Well, it's done," said Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha. "Now maybe they'll leave us alone." Other foreign leaders who have opposed sanctions in the past showed little inclination to be swayed by the new U.S. policy. Said a top aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who led resistance to the E.C. measures: "Her determination to resist further...
...blow that finally doomed Administration lobbying efforts came from South Africa. In telephone conversations with two farm-state G.O.P. Senators, Iowa's Charles Grassley and Nebraska's Edward Zorinsky, Pik Botha warned that imposition of sanctions would result in retaliatory measures from Pretoria. South Africa would not only refuse to import any more American wheat (it bought 256,000 tons in the year ending last June) but also block grain deliveries to neighboring black states that depend on South Africa for commercial transport. Both Senators had been buttonholed near the Senate cloakroom by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, a friend...
...gambit backfired badly. A furious Lugar denounced Botha's warning as "despicable" and bordering on "bribery and intimidation." Somewhat startled, Botha shot back that it was the first time he had heard that "one was not supposed to provide information to an American Senator." His riposte seemed relatively mild, considering that the bill under review was designed specifically and solely to influence South African policy. Still, Botha apparently failed to appreciate the Senate's carefully nurtured view of its proceedings as "deliberative" and free from apparent coercion...