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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--President P.W. Botha said yesterday that raids on alleged guerrilla targets in three nearby countries were justified pre-emptive strikes similar to the U.S. bombing of Libya...
Police used water cannon and tear gas against 200 students, most of them white, at the University of Cape Town who carried placards that said, "Botha is a terrorist...
FIRST, SASC tends to overstate its case for divestment. Although the Botha regime is a target ripe for caricature, SASC's frequent comparisons between South Africa and Nazi Germany are ridiculous. Until South Africa begins to round up entire Black families and villages and cart them off to gas chambers and ovens--and gets the crazy idea of trying to do the same in the rest of the world--such analogies are absurd and can only confuse those not yet among the ranks of the committed...
Antiapartheid activists welcomed the announcement but warned that Botha's new proposals, which include identity books that all South Africans will have to carry, could mean the same old restrictions under a smoother-sounding name. Said Bishop Desmond Tutu, who last week was elected Archbishop of Cape Town, making him the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa: "I hope there is not a sting in the tail. One has to be very careful that they are not going to find another way of harassing blacks...
Like the other reforms that Botha started announcing in January 1985, this one was designed to ease the racial tensions that have rocked South Africa's black townships during the past year and a half. Some 1,450 people have been killed in clashes with police and by fire bombings and brutal "necklacings," in which young radicals place gasoline-filled tires around the necks of suspected traitors to the antiapartheid cause and burn them alive. But the anger is deeply rooted, and recently a new strain of violence has begun to emerge in the black communities. Groups of conservative blacks...