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...carrying out his stated policy to allow peaceful protest, de Klerk faces opposition not only from right-wing parties but from the security establishment that enjoyed wide powers under former President P.W. Botha...
...Klerk, 53, has been acting president since August 15, a day after he and other Cabinet ministers pressured Botha to resign after 11 years in power. De Klerk will be inaugurated Wednesday in a Pretoria church...
Foreign Minister Pik Botha and Finance Minister Barend du Plessis criticized police action in whipping Blacks off a white beach during the election campaign, while Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok defended the action...
Trailing King Lear-like complaints of being ignored, President P.W. Botha, 73, resigned last week. National Party leader F.W. de Klerk was named acting President by the Cabinet until next month's parliamentary elections can formalize the succession. The question is whether this change will make a difference...
Once welcomed as liberators of a land enslaved in Somoza servitude, the revolutionary F.S.L.N. has proved adept at only one thing: holding on to misused power. -- Leaders of Israel's Labor Party threaten to pull out of the national-unity government. -- By meeting with Botha, South Africa's Mandela gives his blessing to direct talks between blacks and the government...