Word: klerk
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Negotiations to write a new constitution for South Africa have been under , way since December, but sometimes it seems as if the extremes -- white and black -- might first pull the country apart. The growing strength of the pro- apartheid Conservative Party has forced President F.W. de Klerk to hold a whites-only referendum on March 17 to shore up support for multiracial democracy. Meanwhile, black ultranationalists are demanding nothing less than De Klerk's surrender of power. With the old order crumbling and the shape of the new uncertain, the country is riper than ever for the destructive influence...
Rudolph considers De Klerk a traitor for freeing and negotiating with Mandela. Last August A.W.B. storm troopers confronted police outside a hall where the President was speaking; in the ensuing clash, two A.W.B. men and a black bystander were killed. Rudolph and other leaders were arrested and will stand trial this month...
Reeling from his National Party's third straight parliamentary by-election loss to the right-wing Conservatives, who favor a return to apartheid, President F.W. de Klerk has decided to risk his future and the country's on a referendum. Before the end of March, he says, South Africa's white voters will be asked whether they back the government's efforts to negotiate a new constitution enfranchising their black fellow citizens...
...question of honor," De Klerk said last week. The African National Congress and others on their side of the bargaining table "must know that we have the power and support to implement what we agree to." Despite their recent successes, one poll shows the Conservatives taking only 30% of white votes nationwide. The President expects to win the referendum, but he vows that if he loses he will resign and force new elections...
...Movement, and nine of his most senior lieutenants, and charged them with public violence. The government's action followed a lengthy investigation of a violent clash between Terre Blanche's pro-apartheid brownshirts and police last August in which three people were killed outside a meeting hall where De Klerk was speaking...