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...neighbors, South Africa's armed forces staged virtually simultaneous attacks in the capital cities of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The targets, according to a subsequent South African announcement, were operational bases and transit facilities of the exiled, outlawed African National Congress, which the government of State President P.W. Botha regards as a terrorist organization and black Africa considers a liberation movement...
Despite the widespread unrest, the Botha government's motive in staging last week's attacks was unclear. Even as the raiding parties were carrying out their missions, a Commonwealth negotiating team arrived in Cape Town following talks with A.N.C. leaders in Lusaka. They were trying to set up a negotiating link between Pretoria and the A.N.C. Though the Commonwealth team's leaders, onetime Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and former Nigerian Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo, were reluctant to admit it, their mission had been all but destroyed by the cross-border raids. Criticism was worldwide. The Reagan Administration expressed...
...time of sharply escalating racial unrest, who is the most popular South African leader among the country's white minority? State President P.W. Botha, who is pushing for limited reforms? Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose cries for change have been tempered by condemnations of violence? Gavin Relly, the chairman of the giant Anglo- American Corp., who last year led a delegation of white businessmen to Lusaka, Zambia, for an unprecedented meeting with the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.)? According to a recent poll, that distinction | belongs to none of the above...
...Botha was defiant in his remarks to Parliament yesterday...
...text of Botha's speech, distributed to reporters, ended with the sentence: "I congratulate (our security forces) an assure the country that we will do it again when the occasion demands." He omitted those words when speaking in Parliament...