Word: klerk
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...military intelligence, has only contempt for the President he calls "the biggest traitor we have ever had." For 35 years Groenewald was a faithful servant of the state, fighting apartheid's war against the revolutionaries of the African National Congress. Now, thanks to the concessionary policies of F.W. de Klerk, his enemy is the government itself, likely to be taken over soon by the leaders of the A.N.C. "For the first time, we really realize that we are in trouble," he said. "De Klerk and the A.N.C. have said, 'Unless you accept the path plotted by us, we will ignore...
...KHAKI-CLAD AFRIKANER FARMERS WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen, who demanded a halt to De Klerk's negotiations with the African National Congress and other parties...
Despite the violence racking South Africa, top leaders of the African National Congress expect the first stage of a multiracial interim government to be in place by June. Why the optimism? One reason, A.N.C. leaders say, is that South African President F.W. DE KLERK, dogged by allegations of security force abuses, would like to clean house in the military, and an interim government would give him the political cover to do so. Probably the first to go will be ! General C.P. van der Westhuizen, the head of military intelligence, who was accused of telling a security official in 1985 that...
...What happened in South Africa today," declared President F.W. de Klerk, "cannot be tolerated in a civilized country." De Klerk was referring to the violence provoked by the murder of Chris Hani, the Communist Party leader who was the most popular of the country's militant blacks. On a day devoted to mourning Hani, at least five people were killed and hundreds injured as angry blacks looted stores and battled police...
...also urged his followers to "forget the past" and reaffirmed his willingness to work with De Klerk "to build a new South Africa." But on Saturday, two blacks were killed by a white gunman during a march in Vanderbijlpark, near Johannesburg. The tragic past threatened to overwhelm a peaceful future...