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...prevent terrorist acts only if we inform, train and activate the public at large to participate in the fight. Civilians should be involved in gathering intelligence, sharing information and detecting suspicious people. Remember, and remember well: the public at large is the first line of defense. JACOB VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Pretoria, South Africa...
...leaders say, is that South African President F.W. DE KLERK, dogged by allegations of security force abuses, would like to clean house in the military, and an interim government would give him the political cover to do so. Probably the first to go will be ! General C.P. van der Westhuizen, the head of military intelligence, who was accused of telling a security official in 1985 that an A.N.C. leader should be "permanently removed from society." Two weeks later, the activist was murdered...
Perhaps the most disturbing sign to black African countries was the revelation last week that on March 15 Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, had met with Lieutenant General P.W. Van der Westhuizen, chief of South Africa's military intelligence. South African officers are barred from visiting the U.S. on official business, but after Reagan's television statement, the general and four aides flew to Washington anyway...
They were turned away by the State Department, but on their way home they stopped off in New York, where they met Kirkpatrick at a private luncheon. Later, Kirkpatrick denied knowing Van der Westhuizen's identity before the meeting. U.S. blacks were unconvinced. The Congressional Black Caucus called for her resignation, drawing parallels between her encounter and former Ambassador An drew Young's secret meeting with a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1979. That breach enraged U.S. Jews and cost Young...
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