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...ignore. Long regarded in the West as Communist clients for their ties to the Soviet Union, A.N.C. leaders are being received by a lengthening list of Western officials. In September British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe met A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo near London. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker saw Tambo the same day. At their meeting Crocker told Tambo, "We are not talking with you because we like you but because we know you have influence in South Africa...
...Minister Margaret Thatcher was sympathetic to the President's action because she too disapproves of sanctions. The British were enthusiastic about sending Shultz to southern Africa and urged that he meet with Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political movement. Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, met with Tambo two weeks ago in London. Other countries, in the meantime, were stepping up their support of sanctions. Canada announced that it would henceforth ban South African farm products, uranium, coal, iron and steel in keeping with a Commonwealth...
After the vote, Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary and current president of the organization, told the ministers, "I fear that we'll have to sustain our pressure for much longer than many of us would have wished." At week's end Howe and Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, held separate meetings in London with Oliver Tambo, president of the militant African National Congress...
...Reagan Administration sent Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, to London to assess the European movement on sanctions. Stunned by the adverse reaction to Reagan's speech, which failed to suggest any change in policy toward South Africa, the White House seemed ready to yield to the pressure for sanctions while trying to hold them to a minimum. It hopes to persuade Congress that mild sanctions taken in concert with other nations would be more effective than harsher measures taken unilaterally...
Even through the past two years of turmoil in South Africa, the Reagan Administration has firmly stuck to its policy of "constructive engagement," under which it hopes to nudge Pretoria toward a peaceful end to apartheid by means of "persuasion and pressure." The policy was fashioned by Chester Crocker, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, who continues to be the Administration's troubleshooter for the region...