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Washington's new plan for Namibian independence calls for assembling an "expert panel" to write a national constitution that would guarantee rights to the white minority. Only then would national elections be called. The framework of the scheme was outlined by Haig to South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha during Botha's May visit to Washington...
...could lead to an expansion of Soviet influence is the struggle in black Namibia (SouthWest Africa), which is trying to gain independence from white-ruled South Africa. Elections in Namibia would probably lead to a Marxist government. Reagan and Haig both met last week with South African Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha and they agreed to support a formula that would guarantee the rights of the white minority before any elections are held...
...capture of a Soviet spy last year, and the suspension of preferential trade relations with neighboring Marxist-led Zimbabwe in March. He also played on the considerable comfort the Nationalists have derived from their hopes of rapprochement with the U.S., as manifested by such gestures as Foreign Minister Roelof Botha's forthcoming visit to Washington later this month. That process has been helped along by U.S. participation, with Britain and France, in vetoes...
...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...