Word: westhuizen
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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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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