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Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker visited Cape Town two weeks ago for talks with Prime Minister Botha and his Foreign Minister, Roelof ("Pik") Botha. The Prime Minister told Parliament that the government's decision to disengage was based, at least partly, on "assurances" received from the U.S. Just what those assurances were is unclear, but presumably Angola promised Washington that it would attempt to restrain the SWAPO guerrillas during the disengagement period...
...repulsed as firmly as those who made it. Two weeks ago, 13 U.N. Security Council members unanimously condemned the South African offensive (only the U.S. and Great Britain abstained). "South Africa is sick and tired of the hypocrisy of that Council and its members," said South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha in reply. The Soviet Union took the unusual measure of approaching South Africa diplomatically to warn it against destabilizing the Angolan regime. Responding to both intrusions, the Durban-based Sunday Tribune editorialized, "Go to hell...
...Perez de Cuellar and officials of Prime Minister P.W. Botha's government announced that they had hammered out a detailed agreement on long-deadlocked negotiations over one of southern Africa's most intractable problems: achieving independence for the South Africa-controlled territory of Namibia. Declared Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha: "We have today resolved all the outstanding issues...
Outside the diplomatic entrance to the State Department Building in Washington last week, a small knot of demonstrators gathered to chant slogans and wave placards. But if the protesters' target, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, was bothered by the demonstration, he gave no sign of it. After a private discussion with Secretary of State George Shultz, followed by a working lunch, Botha claimed confidently that the U.S. had a "real chance" of resolving one of southern Africa's thorniest problems: getting independence for Namibia, a vast, arid territory controlled by South Africa. Echoed a senior State...
...first time since negotiations on independence for Namibia broke down at Geneva in January 1981, the South African government has agreed to preliminary Western proposals that would eventually allow majority black rule in the territory. Still, for South Africa, the stakes are high. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was interviewed by TIME Chief of Correspondents Richard L. Duncan, Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark and Reporter Peter Hawthorne in Cape Town about the prospects of a lasting settlement. Excerpts from their conversation...