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...time passes, the chance of racial compromise seems to be getting slimmer. Scarcely two months ago Western leaders still hoped to persuade Botha to release Black Leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 24 years. Now some Afrikaners are agitating for the arrest of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel peace laureate who is due to be installed on Sept. 7 as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa. Two weeks ago Manpower Minister Pieter du Plessis gave Tutu a "friendly warning" that his calls for sanctions against South Africa "border on high...
...pressure for sanctions increased last month, Thatcher twice sent her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, to Pretoria. His mission: to seek the release from prison of Black Leader Nelson Mandela and the "unbanning" of the African National Congress, the exiled black political movement, in the hope of heading off sanctions. Howe was rebuffed at every turn, both by black leaders angered at Thatcher's refusal to consider sanctions and by the government of State President P.W. Botha for "direct interference" in South Africa's affairs. By mid-July, Kaunda was threatening to leave the Commonwealth if Thatcher remained adamant. Reports...
...same city last year, Botha gravely disappointed Western governments by failing to include in his address a list of widely anticipated racial reforms. This year Botha was simply expected to hang tough, and so there was little hope that he would say anything encouraging about releasing Nelson Mandela or negotiating with black leaders. On the contrary, as his government moves toward stricter controls and security measures, the prospect is for less flexibility than there was before -- and there was never very much...
...proposed Senate sanctions would be lifted if South Africa agreed to release Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned black leader, and take at least three out of four other steps: lift the state of emergency, end the banning of political parties, repeal the "group areas" act, which keeps blacks out of certain residential areas, and start negotiations between white and black leaders in the country. The committee measure would require Reagan to report within six months on the extent of any violations of the existing international embargo on the sale of arms to South Africa. If evasions of the ban continued...
...speech did make certain demands on the South African government: the President called for Pretoria to announce a timetable for the elimination of apartheid laws; to release all political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela; to lift the ban on "black political movements," presumably including the African National Congress. He asked that the white government begin a dialogue with its opponents to create a system "that rests on the consent of the governed." None of these, however, was a departure from previous Administration policy...