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Model U.N. Secretary General Wright noted that Smith's views will be balanced by those of Ambassador J.M.J. Legwaila of Botswana, who will deliver the conference's closing speech on Sunday...
...week's end Lesotho had begun to expel the A.N.C. militants. It appealed to the United Nations to help find new sanctuaries for them. Said Lekhanya: "The security of the refugees (in Lesotho) has become precarious." Clampdowns on activists were also rumored to be under way in Botswana and Zimbabwe...
...raid struck a blow at the precarious detente that exists between white- ruled South Africa and six neighboring black-governed countries: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Earlier in the week, the leaders of those so-called frontline states had issued a joint statement urging increased international pressure against Pretoria's apartheid policies, including the use of economic sanctions. The leaders admitted that they were concerned about the potentially disastrous impact of such sanctions on their own economies, which depend heavily on South Africa's. Nonetheless, they said they saw no other way of bringing about peaceful change...
...expected, Reagan will announce that he is sending Ambassador Herman Nickel back to South Africa this week. The Ambassador will carry a letter from Reagan and will be charged with urging reforms on Pretoria. Nickel was recalled to Washington in June after South African troops made an incursion into Botswana in search of antigovernment guerrillas...
...matter of both principle and self-interest, we want to do everything possible to avert that explosion. Final arrangements can only be determined by the South Africans themselves. But we might give a hint: It's always dangerous giving too little too late. I told Mr. Botha in my (Botswana) border meeting with him in 1982, "You and the moderate whites in commerce, the moderate blacks in commerce form a very substantial middle group. You should together form a new structure for the country, politically, economically and socially. Once you do that, South Africa will be home free. Fail...