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...government's move, cordons of security forces sealed off Soweto before any demonstrations could get under way. More than 150 blacks and Indians-and a handful of white sympathizers-were arrested in protests that followed the first shock. As TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter reports: "There was little joy in Pretoria. Even among Afrikaners, the mood was one of apprehension and depression...
...Dutch baker than a gruff police chief, Kruger last week extensively discussed details of the Biko case for the first time. Showing no outward emotion, the 59-year-old official patiently fielded questions in his wood-paneled Pretoria office during an interview with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Excerpts from their talk...
Smith no longer feels committed to achieving black majority rule by 1978. "That was part of the package deal we made with [then Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger in Pretoria last year," he told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter last week. "That package deal, which included the cessation of terrorism and an end to sanctions, has been thrown out the window, not by the Rhodesian government but by the other parties...
...wrong"). Once he has achieved what he calls an "internal settlement," Smith argues, "the guerrillas' support from the ground will fall away." But won't Rhodesian blacks demand to be in charge of their own affairs? "We will have to wait and see," Smith told McWhirter. "Maybe the most optimistic expectations are not going to coincide with practical realities of life...
...interview with McWhirter, Minister Hawkins insisted that the raid was purely a military operation stemming "from our inherent right of self-defense." But did Smith have political motives in authorizing the mission? Western diplomats noted that the raid began the same morning an Anglo-American negotiating team, headed by British Diplomat John Graham and U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Stephen Low, left Salisbury for the Mozambican capital of Maputo. Their mission: to discuss a possible settlement with Black Nationalist Leader Robert Mugabe, head of the Zimbabwe African National Union and co-chairman with Joshua Nkomo of the Patriotic Front, the joint...