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...apartheid ought to be dismantled," said a State Department spokesman, "but we strongly disagree with the call for divestiture." Officially, the South African government adopted a cautious attitude toward the new superunion. Indeed, declaring that the "revolutionary climate in South Africa is fast losing momentum," State President P.W. Botha lifted the five-month-old state of emergency in eight of the 38 areas where it had been imposed. Those areas were mostly rural settlements and had been for the most part untouched by racial unrest, which has claimed more than 900 victims this year. Privately, officials made it clear that...
...policy matters, McFarlane's differences with Shultz and Weinberger were often tactical rather than ideological. Last August McFarlane wanted to push Shultz and the President away from their support of the Botha regime in South Africa as the antiapartheid protests mounted. He even hinted that if he failed, he might quit. He was the first to fashion a plan to get the Government started on the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars. But he came to see it basically as a means to pressure the Soviet Union toward resuming arms talks and eventually achieving a sharp reduction in offensive...
...Union, ready to end the world as we know it to prevent the spread of Communism (not surprisingly, few conservatives include the armaggedon factor when playing moral equivalence games with South Africa). To be consistent, should we also turn our nuclear arsenal and our massive military might against P.W. Botha, Johannesburg, and Sun City? Let's ask Derek...
...election in Sasolburg. The ultra-right-winger thus became the first candidate of the Herstigte (Reconstituted) National Party to capture a seat in Parliament. Stofberg was the beneficiary of a surge of right-wing reaction against the halting racial reforms of the National Party government of State President P.W. Botha. In five districts holding elections, the National Party won one handily, lost in Sasolburg and won in the other three by margins much reduced since the last local balloting...
While the National Party retains an absolute majority in the House of Assembly, President Botha had portrayed last week's vote as a litmus test for his government's reforms, which have included repeal of the laws against sex and marriage among the races and proposals to allow blacks to own houses in urban areas. Some white backlash was to be expected given the continuing violence in the black townships and South Africa's severe unemployment and recession. In a speech last week to the Foreign Correspondents Association, Botha blamed foreign persecution for intensifying his country's troubles. "The more...