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CAPE TOWN, South Africa--National Party leader F.W. de Klerk was elected yesterday to a five-year term as president and was criticized immediately by conservative opponents for allowing an anti-apartheid protest that drew an estimated 20,000 people...
...Electoral College, dominated by Parliament members of the National Party, cast a unanimous vote for de Klerk, just one day after the march in Cape Town, the largest legal protest march in South Africa's history...
...carrying out his stated policy to allow peaceful protest, de Klerk faces opposition not only from right-wing parties but from the security establishment that enjoyed wide powers under former President P.W. Botha...
None at all, sniffed Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "It is just a change of initials from P.W. to F.W.," said the Nobel laureate. Other black leaders took the same view, noting that while De Klerk talks of dismantling apartheid, he supports segregation in housing, education and politics...
...Klerk insisted that the country was on the "threshold of a new era" and announced he would meet on Aug. 28 with Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda is expected to press De Klerk to negotiate with the outlawed African National Congress...