Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH ITS SUDDEN, COMPREHENSIVE CRACKDOWN on moderate black and interracial organizations and press three weeks ago, South Africa's white minority regime has made it more than clear that it is not about to reform its apartheid policy in any meaningful way, let alone accept any move toward a black majority government in the future. Last month's wave of repression was the harshest and widest-ranging since the early '60s: the regime banned 18--or virtually all--of the country's black organizations and shut down South Africa's leading black newspapers, thus openly betraying its claim that South...
...opposed the mandatory investment embargo, the administration should now at least actively encourage major corporations that do business in South Africa to disinvest. More important, the U.S. should seek to expand its dialogue with black South African nationalists who are fighting for majority rule. For if this most recent crackdown only makes it appear more likely that the white minority and the black majority are headed for an all-out struggle for political power in South Africa--as even white South African liberals who favor peaceful reform now predict--the U.S. should be in a position to support the fight...
...death in September of the imprisoned black political leader Stephen Biko. An autopsy, still to be released, reportedly finds that Biko's death was caused by "extensive head injury of unknown origin," and an inquest begun two weeks ago and postponed will continue Nov. 14. The South African crackdown on political dissenters was the final straw...
...Carter Administration's self-described "point man," Ambassador Andrew Young, took the lead at the U.N. last week by stating that he favored "some form of sanctions" against Pretoria. Young was accurately telegraphing the Administration's view. Referring to the South African crackdown at his Thursday press conference, President Carter declared: "I think it's important that we express in no uncertain terms our deep and legitimate concern about those actions ... my decision has been to support strong sanctions against the sale of weapons to South Africa...
Harvard experts on West Germany agree that the recent wave of terrorism in that country may lead to a government crackdown on terrorist activities supported by a wide popular consensus...