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...short-term effect may be to rally whites behind Vorster...
South African Prime Minister John Vorster has defended the bannings by contending that the outlawed organizations posed a major threat to state security. This argument is not only callous but preposterous, given that the government has restricted the activities of these organizations for years, through continual security police harrassment and routine detention and banning of the groups' leaders...
...stepped-up repression seems rather to be an attempt to further ensure that the country's voting white minority will hand Vorster an overwhelming victory in the general elections later this month, and to serve notice to the U.S. and other Western powers that the white minority is prepared to fight to the last to retain its social predominance and political power...
...face of this increasingly evident intransigence, the Carter administration's response thus far has been overly cautious, if not to say timid. Although symbolically significant, the U.S. agreement in the United Nations last week to a mandatory embargo on all military sales to the Vorster regime does not substantially alter America's official posture, which for over a decade has been voluntary refusal to deal arms to South Africa. The U.S. decision, meanwhile, to use its Security Council veto to block proposals for equivalent embargoes on trade and investment suggests that the Carter administration still holds out hope for bringing...
...headed for an all-out struggle for political power in South Africa--as even white South African liberals who favor peaceful reform now predict--the U.S. should be in a position to support the fight for black majority rule, rather than continuing to underwrite the defiant policies of Vorster's minority regime...