Word: klerk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klerk seems to put a great deal of stock in your leadership. To what extent are you concerned with his political survival...
...aware of the problems that he has, especially from the right wing and possibly from inside his own party as well. What we have done is to appeal ( to whites to assist De Klerk. We are also trying to address the problem of white opposition to him. Discussions have already been started with influential sectors in the right wing...
...rather not. We are dealing with influential individuals in the right wing. I don't want to go beyond that, except to say that our intention is to mobilize the entire right wing to support Mr. De Klerk, to support the peace initiative...
...What would be the danger if De Klerk were removed from the party leadership or ousted in the next election...
...shelving measures that gave police sweeping powers to arrest and detain activists and otherwise clamp down severely on individual rights, De Klerk sought to remove what had been widely seen as a major obstacle to negotiations on the country's future. But his move nonetheless failed to immediately break the impasse with the African National Congress. A.N.C. spokesman Walter Sisulu called De Klerk's actions "half measures...