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...Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha responded to the furor over the Van den Bergs, who now live in a mixed-race trailer camp, by saying that housing rules would have to be reviewed. That sort of equivocation did not impress voters on either side of the race question. Said Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman of the antiapartheid Progressive Federal Party: "Ambiguous reform will lose support from both the left and the right...
...communities. Thus, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu dismissed the latest proposals as a "crumb" and as "piecemeal reform, grudgingly given." Still, in the South African context, last week's announcements represented some progress. Welcoming the government's shift on its citizenship policy, the leader of the white parliamentary opposition, Dr. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, declared, "It signals the end of the apartheid dream but poses the challenge of doing away with the apartheid reality...
...Pact to accept a ban on such weapons in northern Europe. But his remarks had been recorded a week earlier and were not precipitated by the wayward missile. In Norway, the government decided to send a note of protest to the Soviet Union, but the Norwegian defense chief, General Frederik Bull-Hansen, urged the press not to "dramatize" the story. Said he: "There is no reason to believe that the missile came over Norwegian territory to test our preparedness...
...eyes of reformers, however, Botha's government has been long on proposals and short on action. "It's the same old story of promises, promises, promises," said Opposition Leader Frederik van Zyl Slabbert last week. "History is not written about politicians' good intentions." As it is, the Botha government it self has managed to undermine many of its stated good intentions. The future success of its liberalizing policies, for example, is said to rest with a new 60-member President's Council, which is supposed to initiate the constitutional changes that may lead to parliamentary representation...
French Charge d'Affaires Marie-Daniel Bourree, Chevalier de Corberon, has already reported to Paris that "Potemkin's reign is drawing to a close, even though he is smiled upon." Swedish Envoy Baron Frederik Nolcken speaks of the prince's "feigned or real disgrace." British Charge Richard Oakes believes "his favor to be absolutely at an end," and furthermore "it would not be surprising to see him end his career in a monastery...