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...Vorster did not seem to agree. In a special statement to Parliament, he argued that the outbreak of violence had "not been spontaneous" and had been planned "to bring about a polarization between black and white in South Africa." Once the country's tough "Top Cop," Vorster said that he had "instructed the police to take action, irrespective of persons, against anyone disrupting law and order." In his statement, which was taped and later broadcast nationwide on radio and television, the Prime Minister insisted that "there is definitely no reason for any panic. This government will not be intimidated...
...shadow of Soweto will clearly hang over the Prime Minister's talks with Kissinger−one of those awkward summits that West German officials, in retrospect, probably wish could have been held elsewhere. Responding to threats of embarrassingly massive protests against Vorster and his government's apartheid policies, the Bonn government last week shifted the proposed site of the meeting from Hamburg to southern Bavaria. Kissinger and his 100-member retinue will be ensconced at the Hotel Sonnenhof in the picturesque village of Grafenau (pop. 4,000), deep in the Bayerischer Wald and about 13 miles from...
...summit was an outgrowth of Kissinger's recent tour of Black Africa. He became convinced that the Vorster government was the key to any peaceful solution in the region, a point also made by several of the black leaders he talked with. Vorster, who recently met with Prime Minister Ian Smith, had planned to be a surrogate envoy for Rhodesia. He intended to warn Kissinger that as long as force and black terrorism are being used against the white-controlled regime, the Smith government will fight on to the bitter...
White Hands. The Soweto riots almost certainly will reduce Vorster's leverage potential to bring a recalcitrant Rhodesia around to acceptance of black majority rule. Smith can now raise South Africa's own racial troubles in defense of his determination to keep power in "civilized" (meaning white) hands. He can also point out that despite guerrilla attacks, Rhodesia's own black townships remain free of the violence that wracked Soweto. Beyond that, Vorster presumably will be subject to pressure from conservative whites to keep a firm hold on the blacks...
Kissinger, for his part, wants to avoid an all-out racial war in Rhodesia, which might force South African military intervention to prevent the slaughter of the country's 278,000 whites. The Secretary recognizes the unique role that Vorster and his people can still play on the continent: in his Lusaka speech last April, he told a predominantly black audience that white South Africans "are not colonialists" and that "historically they are African people." At the Bavarian summit, Kissinger will urge Vorster to surrender jurisdiction over Namibia and proclaim a timetable, "acceptable to the world community," for greater...