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...crackdown was South Africa's most severe act of repression in many years, and it produced a worldwide outcry. After debating more sweeping measures, which were vetoed by the U.S. and its Western allies, the U.N. Security Council voted to impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa. For the immediate future, that embargo will have only a limited effect, since South Africa is virtually self-sufficient in arms production?but it was a clear signal that the U.N., and particularly the West, is determined to take a firmer line with South Africa from...
...taking a 1963 voluntary arms embargo on South Africa and making it mandatory, the U.N.-and particularly its Western members-served notice on Pretoria that it strongly disapproved of the country's recent crackdown on black leaders and organizations and was prepared, from now on, to turn this disapproval into limited action. Said U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young: "We have just sent a very clear message to the government of South Africa...
This is Paris in 1942. The German occupying forces have increased the harassment of Jews, and a major crackdown clearly is coming. Citizens who cannot produce baptismal certificates proving the Christianity of all four grandparents must queue up at physiognomy clinics, where quacks measure noses and cheekbones to spy out the Jewish taint...
WITH ITS SUDDEN, COMPREHENSIVE CRACKDOWN on moderate black and interracial organizations and press three weeks ago, South Africa's white minority regime has made it more than clear that it is not about to reform its apartheid policy in any meaningful way, let alone accept any move toward a black majority government in the future. Last month's wave of repression was the harshest and widest-ranging since the early '60s: the regime banned 18--or virtually all--of the country's black organizations and shut down South Africa's leading black newspapers, thus openly betraying its claim that South...
...opposed the mandatory investment embargo, the administration should now at least actively encourage major corporations that do business in South Africa to disinvest. More important, the U.S. should seek to expand its dialogue with black South African nationalists who are fighting for majority rule. For if this most recent crackdown only makes it appear more likely that the white minority and the black majority are headed for an all-out struggle for political power in South Africa--as even white South African liberals who favor peaceful reform now predict--the U.S. should be in a position to support the fight...