Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first interview with an American publication since becoming Prime Minister a little over a year ago, Botha last week outlined his reforms to TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Seated behind a desk decorated with a statue of an early pioneer, the unsmiling Nationalist leader made clear that South Africa's reforms will in no way affect the principle of white sovereignty in a white state. Excerpts from the 90-min. talk...
...That is not quite correct. I was asked in Parliament what my attitude as Prime Minister was to the word apartheid. It is an Afrikaans word, and personally I think it cannot be properly translated. I prefer to use the term "good neighborliness" because that is what our policy is: good neighborliness of peoples governing themselves with mutual respect. I answered that the apartheid our enemies presented to the world was dead. I will see to it that our enemies do not succeed in creating the idea that we are a lot of racists...
...think that is so serious. We have had 17 by-elections since I became Prime Minister and lost only one. At that rate, it will take the opposition 50 years to come into power...
...There have been indications that South Africa might intervene militarily to support the government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa...
Watching and listening to the frail old aesthete on television, former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan told the House of Commons last week, was like hearing "the rustle of dead leaves underfoot. I could hear those accents of someone from the 1930s...