Word: klerk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Willem de Klerk, editor of Die Transvaler, the country's influential Afrikaans-language newspaper. And that was the reaction of many white South Africans, as they faced the all but inevitable prospect that the United Nations this week would adopt a mandatory arms embargo against their country for the first time. The expected U.N. resolution-perhaps the first in a series that could lead to economic sanctions as well-was a direct response to the Pretoria government's latest wave of repression. A week earlier more than 50 black leaders had been placed under detention...