Word: concessioners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The answer is no, or at least not yet. Pretoria's calls for change are not a recent concession to foreign pressure. As early as 1979, long before economic sanctions were considered, President P.W. Botha told his Afrikaner volk to "adapt or die." In 1986 he described apartheid as "outdated...
Not all Bush's initiatives have come across as wise. The President seemed to be toadying to the communist Chinese rulers who massacred pro-democracy demonstrators last June. He made a mockery of his sanctions against Beijing -- which called for, among other things, a ban on high-level political exchanges...