Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...registered the intensity and transmitted the data back to earth. After a month of scrutiny, the U.S. Government surmised that the light may have been caused by a relatively low-yield nuclear explosion. Suspicion fell on South Africa, whose haughty denials did little to quell international fears that the Pretoria government had succeeded in developing a nuclear weapon...
...real nuke or a deceptive dud? For years South Africa's many enemies, as well as its few friends, have speculated about the possibility that Pretoria's white apartheid regime might secretly be developing nuclear weapons. South Africa not only has the required technical expertise, but also possesses almost one-fifth of the world's known uranium deposits...
Defense officials cautioned that radiation tests of the atmosphere above the stretch of ocean had proved negative. Pretoria flatly denied all. ''Utter nonsense,'' snapped Atomic Energy Board Chairman Jacobus De Villiers. ''The U.S. must learn to get its facts straight,'' chided Foreign Minister Roelof (''Pik'') Botha. ''In an area that size, it could have been anyone...
...Pretoria recently hinted that it would intervene militarily should the forces of "chaos and confusion" descend upon Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Last week South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha flew unexpectedly to London to express his government's concerns to Carrington and Thatcher...
...spoke with Dr. Koornhof at his Pretoria home in late July...