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...national Chamber of Commerce, "has always included the belief that the road to equal employment should not pave the way for discrimination against others." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes insisted last week that the draft, which is scheduled for discussion at a future working group of the Cabinet, was "in the early stages." He added, "It certainly has not been presented to the President. Therefore, it has no standing whatsoever as Administration policy...
Apparently President Botha knew it well, and conservatives in the Cabinet may have forced him to water down his message. When he appeared on the platform in Durban's oak-paneled city hall last Thursday, the President seemed preoccupied with protecting his right flank (see box). He made no mention of the term power sharing and explicitly vetoed the idea of adding a fourth, black branch of Parliament to the tricameral legislative system for whites, "coloreds" (mixed-race South Africans) and Indians that took effect last year. Botha declared only that "any future constitutional dispensation providing for participation...
...forefront of the right-wing thrust stands the Conservative Party, headed by Treurnicht, 64, a former National Party member and Cabinet minister who broke with Botha in 1982 over the issue of limited power sharing with nonwhites. When the President acted on his proposal for a tricameral Parliament, Treurnicht bolted the National Party, along with 16 other M.P.s, and formed his own party. Treurnicht, who is derided as "Dr. No" by his foes, aims his no-compromise rhetoric mainly at lower-class whites...
...24/7 schedule--was aimed at one thing: making the company a more formidable global competitor. This is a man who knew how to play hardball to get what he wanted. A lawyer before he was an insurance man, he thought nothing of phoning members of Congress or even Cabinet-level officials at the White House to express his views on tort reform, insurance legislation or international trade...
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