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Botha offers Namibia statehood
and promises to lift emergency
CAPE TOWN. South Africa
(AP) — President P.W. Botha
announced that the 195-dav-old
state of emergency imposed to
fight anti-apartheid turmoil in
South Africa probably would be
lifted on Friday.
His announcement Tuesday
was praised by the United
States and was given a cautious
welcome from some South
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African liberals. But itprovoked
expressions of concern from the
largest anti-apartheid grouping,
the United Democratic Front,
that the emergency would be
supplanted by repressive
legislation.
Botha also made a new offer
of statehood for Namibia, pro
posing an Aug. 1 target date for
starting moves toward the ter
ritory’s independence. He made
it conditional on a withdrawal
of Cuban troops from neighbor
ing Angola.
Botha made his an
nouncements to a packed
parliamentary chamber in the
country’s legislative capital.
He claimed the level of
violence had dropped suffi
ciently to enable him to issue a
proclamation, “most probably
this coming Friday,” to lift the
state of emergency.
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But critics of the system of
racial segregation that keeps
power in the hands of South
Africa's white minority said
they could not readily explain
the timing of Botha’s announce
ment. They insisted the level of
violence had not dropped
The emergency, imposed July
2t on 30 urban and rural
districts and subsequently lifted
from seven, gives police and
troops sweeping powers to use
guns against rioters and detain
suspects indefinitely without
trial. It has been widely con
demned abroad, and its removal
is a primary demand of anti
apartheid activists.
Botha also said Parliament
would be asked to review ex
isting laws in case new ones
were needed to help “protect
lives and properly effectively."
The United Democratic Front,
a multiracial coalition of anti
apartheid groups, said lifting
the emergency would. be an
"acknowledgment that the
emergency has failed to sup
press the desire of our people to
be free."
But the organization express
ed concern at Botha's mention
of new laws, saying: "The
government is going to broaden
the already Draconian provi
sions of the Internal Security
Act. The effect of this is that a
de facto state of emergency will
exist throughout our country."
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Arms talks round concludes
GENEVA (AF| — The fourth
round of U.8.-Soviet arm* talks
ended Tuesday after six week*
of negotiations. The chief
Soviet envoy said the United
States Was uncooperative, and
the top U S. delegate blamed
the Soviets for slow progress
“We introduced a jot of pro
posals hero. ., and we regret
that there was no positive
response by the ' American
side," said Viktor Karpov. .
"We still hope for a
cooperative spirit but we regret
fully don't have it.!’ he said.
"We hope that maybe next time
there will la: more progress."
The fifth round of talks is
scheduled to start May'S, said
the* head of the U.$. delegation.
Max Kant pel man.
Ir an unusual public criticism
of hi«( negotiating partners,
kampelman said the reason for
' slow .progress .was* "that the
Soviet delegation has hot acted
to fulfill the comm it Rights,
undertaken by’-.’: President
Keegan and . Soviet leader
. Mikhail Gorbachev, at their
- November summit in Geneva.
’’The round ended with; less
accomplished than we had
hoped," .kampelman said, lie
said, however, that positive facJ'
tors included a commitment by
both sides to speed up work
toward on agreement on
medium-range nuclear forces
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