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...eyes of most blacks, the statutory council is flawed because it is purely advisory and blacks played no role in its formulation. "The government's basic mistake," says a Western diplomat, "is that it thinks it can, and must, remain in control of the process of change. It is trying to reform by directive, and blacks will not accept that." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, former leader of the white opposition Progressive Federal Party, says that the government is inviting blacks to negotiate about apartheid, while the blacks are saying that if apartheid is abolished first, then they will negotiate about...
...Third World's turn to socialism arose in large part as a reaction to colonial rule. Even today capitalism is considered part of a hated past. "Capitalism is regarded as an ideological word and is not acceptable," says a Western diplomat stationed in Africa. When newly independent countries adopted socialism in the 1960s, they were in effect rebelling against what they saw as the economic system of departing colonial masters...
...Brown, 51, a black businessman from North Carolina, would be named Ambassador to Pretoria. "For the first time in U.S.-South Africa relations, a black is being given serious consideration for the post," said a Washington- based South Africa specialist. The other top candidate is Richard Viets, a career diplomat and former Ambassador to Tanzania and Jordan...
...thinks that Peking's bid to join GATT will end Chinese protectionism. Says a Western diplomat in Peking: "We all know the Chinese are not interested in facilitating trade. They are interested in facilitating exports." Trade experts think that several years of delicate negotiations lie ahead before GATT members admit China to the club. The Chinese, for instance, may request special treatment as a developing nation. Nevertheless, the fact that China has asked to sit down at the bargaining table with its trading partners is a promising omen...
...that its own people are often forced to do without staples such as eggs and beef. To conserve scarce energy supplies, Ceausescu has barred private cars from Bucharest streets, urged citizens to use 40-watt light bulbs and farmers to replace tractors with horses or oxen. Says a Western diplomat in Bucharest: "The Rumanians are going backward, at least to the 19th century --maybe to the 18th...