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Despite these signals of discontent, Vorster seemed extraordinarily confident last week as he made a surprise announcement dissolving Parliament and calling new elections for Nov. 30, a year and a half ahead of schedule. In a terse, tough statement, the Prime Minister made clear that the campaign would be fought on two issues: 1) interference from "foreign meddlers"-meaning the U.S. and other Western countries-who, in Vorster's words, "go so far as to claim one man, one vote for the whole of South Africa"; and 2) a new constitution, which would give some measure of self-rule...
...long history of defiance and grievance, South Africa, and especially its ruling, Afrikaner-dominated National Party, has almost seemed born for conflict. Even so, the tumult that raged around the government of Prime Minister John Vorster last week may very well have set the stage for the supreme struggle between the Afrikaners and African nationalism...
There was no question that Vorster and his National Party would not only win handily but substantially increase their 121-seat majority in the 171-member Parliament. The liberal opposition parties, which gain most of their support from South Africa's English-speaking whites, are riven with angry feuds. Both they and the neglected minorities who would supposedly benefit under the new constitution are opposed to it, but they have little chance of thwarting John Vorster's will...
...million whites, with 185 members; another for the 2.5 million coloreds, with 92 seats; and a third for the 1 million Asians, with 46 seats. Real power would be vested in a President who, unlike the present Prime Minister, would have virtually supreme powers. Assuming he wins the election, Vorster would become the President...
During an earlier stop in Lusaka, Zambia, Owen and Young discussed the plan with Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. In Pretoria, they underwent what one observer described as a six-hour "interrogation" by South African Prime Minister John Vorster. The proposal that most troubled Vorster: the disbanding of the Rhodesian army and establishment of a U.N. peace-keeping force. Vorster declared: "The Rhodesian question is a matter for whites and blacks in Rhodesia to solve"-apparently meaning that as far as Vorster is concerned, Smith is free to pursue his own kind of settlement and that South...