Word: superunion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formation of the federation but frowned on its support for divestment. "We agree that pass laws and apartheid ought to be dismantled," said a State Department spokesman, "but we strongly disagree with the call for divestiture." Officially, the South African government adopted a cautious attitude toward the new superunion. Indeed, declaring that the "revolutionary climate in South Africa is fast losing momentum," State President P.W. Botha lifted the five-month-old state of emergency in eight of the 38 areas where it had been imposed. Those areas were mostly rural settlements and had been for the most part untouched...
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