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...persuade reluctant legislators on such hotly contested matters as sending advanced AWACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia and aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. But ) last week Reagan's fabled reserves of luck and persuasion finally ran out. Both houses of Congress voted decisively to override his veto of a bill calling for stiff economic sanctions against South Africa...
White House strategists then switched to a familiar ploy. Meeting with eight Republican Senators who were considered swing votes, Secretary of State George Shultz argued strongly that a congressional override of the sanctions veto would undercut Reagan's credibility at this weekend's meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland. "To the best of my knowledge, South Africa has never been on the agenda for a summit," commented Lugar. "I think this will be seen as farfetched...
...must find an end to Apartheid, but Congress made a mistake in overriding Reagan's veto" of the economic sanctions bill, Falwell said...
...Pretoria the government had been getting ready for bad news from Washington for more than a week. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha repeated the conventional argument that if the congressional bill survives the Reagan veto, "it will have a damaging effect on the jobs of many people, black and white. It will harm us, but it will not kill...
...Reagan's veto was supported by some American allies but criticized by others. Like West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was sympathetic to the President's action because she too disapproves of sanctions. The British were enthusiastic about sending Shultz to southern Africa and urged that he meet with Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political movement. Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, met with Tambo two weeks ago in London. Other countries, in the meantime, were stepping up their support of sanctions...