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...Pietersburg were forced to fire tear gas at the movement's supporters when they refused to allow Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha to address a rally. Against this troubled backdrop, Botha held an hour-long interview in his Cape Town office with TIME Executive Editor Edward L. Jamieson and Johannesburg Correspondent Peter Hawthorne. Excerpts...
...rental cars as well as helicopters and jet fighters, came at a time of sputtering unrest throughout South Africa. Early in the week the Pretoria government announced that it had found a large cache of mines, bombs, rockets, grenades and automatic rifles, supposedly belonging to the A.N.C., somewhere near Johannesburg. Rioting continued throughout the week in the squatter camp of Crossroads, near Cape Town, where gangs of conservative black vigilantes were pitted against hundreds of young antiapartheid activists. At least 32 people were killed, and tens of thousands of shacks were burned, reputedly by the vigilantes, leaving as many...
...JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--President P.W. Botha said yesterday that raids on alleged guerrilla targets in three nearby countries were justified pre-emptive strikes similar to the U.S. bombing of Libya...
About 800 students of both races from the University of the Wit-watersrand in Johannesburg staged an outdoor protest yesterday, and 13 arrests were reported. Protesters threw stones at two police cars and several private cars. Witnesses said students rushed at a group of police, shouting slogans against the white Afrikaners who control the ruling National Party...
...Steven Holmes, William Rademaekers Paris: Jordan Bonfante, B. J. Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Erik Amfitheatrof, Sam Allis, Wilton Wynn Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Roland Flamini Middle East: Dean Fischer Cairo: John Borrell Bahrain: Barry Hillenbrand Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: James Willwerth Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Sandra Burton, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Edwin M. Reingold, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Canada: Peter Stoler, Ed Ogle Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: Harry Kelly, Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott...