Word: klerk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What a difference a year makes. Exactly 12 months ago, President F.W. de Klerk stunned his country by opening Parliament with a pledge to legalize the militantly antiapartheid African National Congress and release A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela from jail. With those milestones behind him, De Klerk surpassed expectations again last week by declaring his intention to bring a swift end to legally sanctioned racial segregation. He called on Parliament to repeal ( immediately the remaining pillars of discrimination that dictate where blacks can work and live. "There is neither time nor room for turning back," De Klerk declared. "There is only...
...Klerk asked lawmakers to dismantle the Group Areas Act, which segregates black and white residential areas, and the Land Acts, which bar blacks from owning land outside specially designated homelands. He unveiled a major surprise by promising to phase out the infamous Population Registration Act. That hated law underpins the entire apartheid system by forcing South Africans to register by racial group for political and economic purposes...
...Paradigm: Vaclav Havel, Cable News Network, information, fax machines, computers, Sam Nunn, the new Germany, pluralism, democracy, F.W. de Klerk, unsentimental ruthlessness, William Safire, the Pacific...
...conference ended with a warning that the A.N.C. would pull out of talks with Pretoria unless the government freed all political prisoners and permitted all exiles to return by next April 30. Delegates also threatened a campaign of strikes and boycotts to back up their demands. President F.W. de Klerk warned in turn against such "outmoded" radicalism, calling on the A.N.C. to decide whether it wanted peaceful, negotiated solutions or a return to the confrontations of the past...
Afrikaner soul searching even extends to such a holy of holies as the Day of the Covenant, the annual Dec. 16 commemoration that marks the Afrikaner victory over the Zulus in the 1838 Battle of Blood River. Now that De Klerk is calling for the races to live together in one nation, some Afrikaners feel a national holiday glorifying the white man's victory over the black man is more inappropriate than ever...