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...forefront of the right-wing thrust stands the Conservative Party, headed by Treurnicht, 64, a former National Party member and Cabinet minister who broke with Botha in 1982 over the issue of limited power sharing with nonwhites. When the President acted on his proposal for a tricameral Parliament, Treurnicht bolted the National Party, along with 16 other M.P.s, and formed his own party. Treurnicht, who is derided as "Dr. No" by his foes, aims his no-compromise rhetoric mainly at lower-class whites...
While the National Party is not likely to lose its comfortable parliamentary majority any time soon, the right wing severely circumscribes Botha's freedom of movement toward change. Addressing himself to the President, Treurnicht last week told a provincial congress of the Conservative Party, "With all respect, I warn you. You will be crushed between black-radical demands and the resistance of whites. You are awakening the tiger in the whites...
...Lusaka, Zambia, where the A.N.C. has its headquarters. The reports were fueled largely by the fact that the 67-year-old Mandela, who underwent prostate surgery four weeks ago, had not yet been returned from a hospital in Cape Town to his cell in Pollsmoor Prison. State President P.W. Botha tried to dispel the rumors, saying that "no decision has been taken" on Mandela's future. At week's end, authorities announced that Mandela had been returned to the prison outside Cape Town...
...kept a tight lid on the proceedings, it is assumed that strategies to hasten racial reform were discussed. Meanwhile another group, representing the 186 U.S. companies that subscribe to a code of fair employment practices known as the Sullivan Principles, sent a telex to the South African government urging Botha to "lower tensions" in the schools of the country's black townships...
South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha denounced the A.N.C.'s unprecedented deployment of mines on roads. He said investigators had discovered "tracks" leading to the Zimbabwe border and warned that South African troops would pursue the saboteurs into Zimbabwe if the attacks continued. The Foreign Ministers of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, denied that A.N.C. guerrillas maintained bases in their countries and protested Botha's threat "in the strongest possible terms." NORTHERN IRELAND Anger in Parliament...