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Looking for peace, Botha withdraws troops from Angola...
...firmly as those who made it. Two weeks ago, 13 U.N. Security Council members unanimously condemned the South African offensive (only the U.S. and Great Britain abstained). "South Africa is sick and tired of the hypocrisy of that Council and its members," said South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha in reply. The Soviet Union took the unusual measure of approaching South Africa diplomatically to warn it against destabilizing the Angolan regime. Responding to both intrusions, the Durban-based Sunday Tribune editorialized, "Go to hell...
...referendum was a personal triumph for Botha. After taking office in 1978, he claimed that South Africans must "adapt or die" in confronting the racial segregation policies that have made their country an international outcast. His ideas of adaptation, however, have never included any role in national decision making for South Africa's 21 million blacks. In the new constitutional order, the black majority will still be consigned to the government's long-term program of "separate development," meaning citizenship in artificial "independent homelands" without claims to South African political rights...
Even with that large proviso in his plans, Botha's referendum has created deep fissures among white South Africans. During the bitter three-month campaign, those divisions erupted in a bitter broedertwis (Afrikaans for fraternal feud), while the referendum became known as the Great Divide...
...Botha's plan, announced more than a year ago, would have South Africa's single-chamber, whites-only parliament replaced by a tricameral parliament composed of three separate but very unequal chambers: one each for whites, coloreds and Asians. The white House of Assembly will have 178 members, the colored House of Representatives 85, and the Asian House of Delegates 45. Each chamber will have a Ministers' Council to control its "own" affairs. Each chamber will also contribute members to a white-dominated council, designated to coordinate government policy under the direction of an executive State President...