Word: klerk
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...threat of death was nothing new to Chris Hani. As the exiled military commander of the African National Congress during the 1980s, he survived three attempts on his life. After President F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the A.N.C. in 1990 and Hani returned home from Zambia as a member of the group's ruling executive committee to negotiate with Pretoria's white rulers, he looked forward to living eventually in a fair and free society. Last week, however, as he arrived at his home in Boksburg from a morning of grocery shopping with his daughter, Hani...
...sending his condolences, President De Klerk appealed to black leaders to keep their followers under control. In a rare nationally televised address, Nelson Mandela replied with an exhortation of his own: "This killing must stop. We must not permit ourselves to be provoked. Let us respond with dignity...
...QUESTION HAD BEEN HANGING THERE THROUGH years of isolation and sanctions against the apartheid regime: Did South Africa have the Bomb? Last Wednesday in Cape Town, President F.W. de Klerk finally provided an answer, and then some: Yes. But not just one. There were...
Opening the book on his government's nuclear-weapons program, De Klerk announced that after he became President in 1989, he ordered the dismantling and destruction of the secret "nuclear-fission devices" that had been manufactured in the 1970s. The government's strategy at that time, he said, was to use the weapons' "deterrent capability." If a Soviet-backed onslaught against South Africa became critical enough, the major powers would be told of South Africa's nuclear arms capacity to persuade them to intervene...
That strategy was obviated, however, by the removal of the Soviet threat and the start of political negotiations within South Africa. In 1991 De Klerk's government acceded to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and signed an inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. "South Africa's hands are clean," said De Klerk. "We are concealing nothing...