Word: klerk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klerk's antiapartheid moves seemed almost to be following a script written in Washington. When the U.S. Congress imposed economic sanctions in 1986, lawmakers said they would lift the ban only if Pretoria enacted a list of major reforms. These ranged from the release of Mandela to the abolition of the Population Registration Act. Now De Klerk has fulfilled or promised to meet each demand, leaving only the release of all political prisoners to be carried out. Pretoria is clearly hoping for a swift lifting of sanctions. However, U.S. officials said last week that the prisoner issue remained a sticking...
...Klerk appeared determined to root out virtually every major form of legal discrimination. Among the laws he promised to scrap was one that helped create the all-black homelands. Yet a few legal vestiges of apartheid will remain in a technical sense. Children who were born after the repeal of the Population Registration Act will no longer be classified by race, but the register will not be scrapped entirely until the new government comes...
...Africans to a new era of harmony, it also exposed the deep rifts that run through every level of the racially torn society. Despite the truce between Mandela and Buthelezi, the two leaders remain far apart in their strategy. As A.N.C. demonstrators called for immediate elections, Buthelezi applauded De Klerk's rejection of such a move, which the Zulu leader denounced as "a constitutional leap into the dark." At the same time, Buthelezi praised the De Klerk government for "lending its weight to breaking the back of apartheid...
Despite their differences, the A.N.C. and Inkatha have tentatively agreed to De Klerk's proposal for an all-party conference -- or Great Indaba -- to help design a multiracial legislature that would replace the white-dominated Parliament. The A.N.C. wants Pretoria to free all remaining political prisoners and allow exiles to return to South Africa before convening the Indaba. If such conditions are met and the talks remain on track, political analysts say elections could be held under a new constitution by late...
President F.W. de Klerk calls for the swift repeal of racist laws that have long dictated where blacks can work and live. Mandela and Buthelezi embrace but remain far apart on strategy. Black violence and white resistance could slow the timetable for change. -- The Soviet Union marshals soldiers and sailors to combat a fast-spreading epidemic of violent crime...