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This week the three will be forced to continue playing for time. Reagan is scheduled to make a major speech outlining his Administration's policy toward South Africa. In addition, Secretary of State George Shultz will go before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the Administration's program of relying on quiet diplomacy to nudge Pretoria toward making changes in its apartheid system...
...have triggered the terrorists' action. In Bonn, Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann urged West Germans who might be sympathetic to the noble-sounding aims of terrorist groups not to excuse their grisly crimes. The Red Army, he said, "consists merely of perfidious, ordinary murderers." U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz echoed that sentiment in a speech before the Washington press corps last week, calling terrorists "beasts" and warning journalists against becoming "fascinated" with them...
...emergency reasserted its absolute indifference to gentle prodding from abroad. On the other hand, support for sweeping economic sanctions has been steadily mounting in Congress. The Administration is now trying to map out some middle ground between doing nothing and imposing tough sanctions. As Secretary of State George Shultz explained last week, Washington must act "in a manner that lends strength to our statements but leaves us in a position to exercise what persuasion...
...Both Shultz and President Reagan remain opposed to sanctions, arguing that they would not only remove U.S. leverage in South Africa but devastate much of southern Africa. In June, however, the House overwhelmingly voted to clamp a comprehensive trade embargo on South African products and force all U.S. companies to withdraw from the embattled country within six months. Last week the Senate delivered its strongest gesture of impatience yet. Only hours before the body recessed for the holiday weekend, Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum introduced a bill that would ban all new U.S. loans and investments in South Africa. Said...
Such pressure has increased the urgency for the Administration, as Shultz puts it, to "turn up the rheostat." The Secretary of State is expected to reveal a few adjustments in constructive engagement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 22. The changes, however, will probably be mild and largely cosmetic. Shultz has admitted that Washington's "ability to pressure South Africa is limited." But if the U.S. does nothing, it may forfeit even that limited role, not only in South Africa's current affairs but also in the future of that tormented country...