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...club of former British colonies, which some believe Thatcher is goading toward a full- scale crisis. The member nations' scorn of Thatcher's "negotiations, not sanctions" policy only deepened last week after an uninspiring meeting between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and South African State President P.W. Botha...
...Presidents, Ronald Reagan and P.W. Botha, agree on at least one thing: South Africa's problems will be resolved by its own people, in the main without reference to the world at large. Indeed, the reform program that Pretoria has carried out over the past two years, including an end to the color bar in sex and marriage and legalization of black residence in urban areas, was announced in Botha's speech opening Parliament in January 1985, months before South Africa became front-page news in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...monumental change of mind that was inconceivable as recently as five years ago, most white South Africans today agree that apartheid should be "dismantled" and that blacks must be allowed to share power up to the highest level. Many go further, as Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha did in February, when he said that a black President is probably inevitable. Some senior officials confide privately that they expect to see a black government in South Africa in their lifetime. The unresolved question is how to get from the present to the inevitable...
...table -- efforts that have failed because blacks demanded that first apartheid had to be abolished and political prisoners released. A third attempt will be launched later this month when Parliament takes up a bill to create a National Statutory Council, a multiracial group that is to advise State President Botha on social reform and the drafting of a new constitution that would for the first time explicitly allow blacks to participate in the political process...
Almost a year has passed since Reagan deftly outflanked a congressional sanctions bill by imposing limited trade restrictions on South Africa. Yet little has happened to indicate that the Administration's trade restraints and quiet diplomacy have met with any success. Botha's halfhearted gestures at reform have been upstaged by the state of emergency, now in its seventh week. The intransigence of his Nationalist government has only hardened antiapartheid sentiment among U.S. politicians and voters. More and more legislators feel that 1) the American public wants sanctions, and 2) economic measures are the only remaining leverage for change...