Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson and other blacks were advocating a foreign policy agenda more radical than that of the party's. One clear priority is a strong condemnation of the Reagan policy toward South Africa; most blacks, and other Democratic activists, correctly believe that the Administration has done little to discourage Pretoria's apartheid practices. On other international issues, Jackson has broken not only with Administration positions but with those of his party's leadership. During his trips abroad, for example, he contended that U.S. blacks share a special rapport with revolutionaries in the Third World since both have been...
...were stealing up on a group of 37 SWAPO leaders and supporters enjoying a barbecue. All 37 were jailed without charge, then released from custody just as abruptly four days later. Were Botha and his government embarrassed by the timing of the arrests? "Yes," snapped a government official in Pretoria. "Next question...
...South African hostilities against the Angolan government and to Pretoria's support for the antigovernment forces of Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). "The governments of Cuba and Angola," the communiqué went on, "reiterate that they shall restart, on their own decision and exercising their sovereignty, the implementation of the gradual withdrawal [of Cuban troops] as soon as the conditions...
Irked by references to the "disgraceful" and "repugnant" Pretoria regime, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha denounced the language of the Havana statement as "unacceptable." Nonetheless, despite the feverish rhetoric, U.S. officials were hopeful. Declared Secretary of State George Shultz: "If the outcome of the Angolan-Cuban talks is progress toward Cuban troop withdrawal, I think that's positive...
Daunting obstacles remain before the Cubans go home. Pretoria is sure to demand ironclad guarantees of a Cuban withdrawal before its own troops leave Namibia. Still, the cease-fire between South Africa and Angola has held, and even South African officials have been impressed by the Angolan determination to end the border war. In recent weeks, troops from both countries have combined forces in a Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC), which has been forced to engage disruptive SWAPO forces on three separate occasions. The JMC toll: two killed and eight wounded, all Angolan. The fact that the Dos Santos government...