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While Secretary of State George P. Shultz last week affirmed the "common objective which unites us," the Reagan Administration's persistent attempts to salvage business interests in that nation and to protect the regime in Pretoria from sanctions has belied any meaningful opposition to apartheid. The veto override finally makes clear that the United States is on the right side of the struggle in South Africa...
...percent loss in South Africa's international trade. Ironically, most American banks had already cut off loans to South African companies for business reasons. And as to the prohibition on American airline traffic on South African runways, currently there is none. The demands Congress has made on the Pretoria government are important as an impetus to change, but most important is the clear statement that the United States is with Black South Africans, not against them...
...President's veto. Reagan is as opposed as ever to any kind of sanctions against South Africa. If pressed, he would accept some innocuous additional measures, like restrictions on new investment in companies that do not follow principles of racial equality. In its determination not to upset the Pretoria government unduly, the Administration even let it be known that it disagreed with a decision by the Coca-Cola Co., once one of the largest American employers in South Africa, to sell its remaining holdings in that country as an expression of the company's opposition to apartheid...
...that some prohibitions were invalid because the measures had not been published as required by law. As a result, reporters were able to provide detailed accounts when the bloody confrontation that left 24 dead erupted a fortnight ago in Soweto. Last week, as the township girded for further violence, Pretoria issued the most stringent press restrictions yet, this time properly spelling them out in the Government Gazette. Reporters were prohibited from coming "within sight" of any unrest, security action or restricted gathering. Last week's funeral was thus off limits, forcing journalists to rely on word-of-mouth reports from...
...Pretoria government has long since learned that the more it condemns Tutu, the more the world honors him. In late 1984, for example, after a particularly vigorous government campaign in which one Cabinet minister warned him against committing "wicked acts under the cloak of religion," Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The government would undoubtedly love to ban him or arrest him, but officials are concerned about the price the country would pay in world opinion...