Word: frederik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan, said President-elect Frederik W. de Klerk, opens nothing less than "a new chapter" in South Africa's history. Passed last week by the ruling National Party, the outline calls for constitutional reforms to be introduced over the next five years that would provide limited voting rights to the country's disenfranchised black majority. The accord envisions a federal system composed of Swiss-style cantons, where suffrage in local elections would be universal...
...South Africa's long-ruling National Party, seemingly | signaling his intention to retire. But last month he returned to his presidential office, haughtily dismissing talk of a national election later this year that would pave the way for his formal departure. Both his party and his expected successor, Frederik W. de Klerk, 53, were displeased. Under their pressure, the State President, known unflatteringly as the Great Crocodile, flip-flopped on both counts last week...
Botha, 73, had been on sick leave for two weeks when he astonished the country on Feb. 2 by giving up his leadership of the National Party. After the Transvaal province leader, Frederik W. de Klerk, 53, was elected to succeed him on the same day, puzzled party chiefs finally concluded that Botha was signaling his intention to retire. So they were shocked once again by Botha's televised announcement that he would be returning to work on March 15. In a rapid series of meetings, the Nationalists resolved that the positions of party leader and State President should...
...caucus quickly elected Frederik W. de Klerk, 52, to replace Botha. Party leader of the populous Transvaal province and Education Minister in Botha's Cabinet, De Klerk has been heir apparent for the past seven years. He is a conservative and an apartheid advocate, a younger, more articulate version of P.W. Botha and, like him, happy with a glacial pace of "reform" that nonetheless maintains minority white control...
...public alarm over crime has risen, the government has responded. Minister of Justice Frederik Korthals Altes last February won overwhelming parliamentary approval for a $40 million omnibus crime bill that calls for hiring more police and creating a criminal-investigat ion arm to assist municipal detective bureaus. Meanwhile, Housing Minister Nijpels announced the construction of 3,000 jail cells to supplement the 5,000 currently...