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...cruel, brutal and archaic leaders have shown their true colors. Their riot control methods remind one of Australia's early days when in many areas the fashionable sport for the young bloods was to go out and shoot an aborigine. The harvest that Prime Minister Vorster will reap will be one of violence and death as blacks swarm through cities like Johannesburg, aided by Marxist countries whose ideology is able to breed, as it always has been able to, in poverty, misery and oppression...
...many condemnations of the South African government's policies of separate but equal development, or apartheid, Dr. Kissinger is giving moral support to the many subversive terrorists who want J. Vorster and Ian Smith...
White officials took the line that the disorders were primarily fomented by agitators seeking to embarrass Prime Minister John Vorster on the eve of his talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in West Germany. That the riots damaged Vorster's cultivated image as the statesman of segregation seemed clear enough. Nonetheless, Vorster remains the only key to solving the growing racial conflict in neighboring Rhodesia. Thus Kissinger went ahead with the meeting-as he put it earlier-"to see whether South Africa would be willing to contribute to a moderate and peaceful evolution of events in southern Africa...
South Africa's main leverage over Ian Smith's white-minority regime in Salisbury is economic; Rhodesia gets virtually all of its arms and ammunition and most of its imports via South African rail lines. Just how far Kissinger went in urging Vorster to place economic sanctions against the Smith regime was not clear. Kissinger declined to speculate on the outcome of the talks, but expressed optimism that "the process is in motion" for a peaceful transition to majority rule in Rhodesia. He also discussed the possibility of resettling white Rhodesians in Western Europe and South Africa, perhaps...
...Vorster's response to the Soweto massacre was not a very promising omen for peace in the area. The way to prevent more such violence in the future, he declared, was not to make concessions to blacks on the teaching of Afrikaans but to take even tougher law-and-order measures. Before leaving for West Germany, he appointed Petrus Malan Cillie, a white Transvaal judge, to launch a judicial inquiry into the riots. Both white and black newspapers found the action insensitive and called for a multiracial commission. Asked the Johannesburg Star in an editorial: "Is it possible...