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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, April 18, 1986
Botha announces reform debates
United Press International
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha, telling the world to stay out of South Africa's internal affairs, announced yesterday he would be leading a national mission to debate reforms of the nation's race laws.
The announcement was the first indication of a timetable by the white-minority government for reforms of apartheid — the policy of institutionalized segregation against the majority black population and other people of color. The reforms have been outlined by Botha in speeches since 1985.
It came on a day when a bomb exploded in the Tranksier Interior Ministry office in Umtata, seriously wounding one person and injuring three others. The blast was immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
Addressing lawmakers in Parliament's white House of Assembly in his third major address on
planned reforms of aparteid, Botha urged the world to end attempts to influence the course of change in South Africa. Many Western nations have imposed sanctions against Pretoria to protest aparteid.
"Considering that we are occupied with these formidable domestic affairs to which you have no answers, do retrain from interfering, whether it be by way of official organs, by espionage, cover organizations, mediators or subtle brainwashing." he said.
Botha provided additional details of earlier pledges to reform eight aspects of the government's policy of apartheid.
ment's policy or aparecer. He said he would soon take action to establish a multiracial National Statutory Council, first proposed in an address to Parliament on Jan. 31.
The council, which so far has been rejected by all major black leaders, would be only an interim step toward expanded black rights — not an end in
"I believe that a national council in which leaders of all our communities meet on a fixed basis can contribute much . . . on the establishment of a new constitutional dispensation which would make provisions for participation by all South Africans," Botha said.
itself, Botha said.
The president said Parliament would adjourn on schedule June 20, but would reconvene for a special session Aug. 18, a week after the second congress of his white National Party, which has implemented apartheid laws since taking power in 1948.
There has been no official explanation of the Aug. 12 meeting, but sources have said Botha would seek a mandate to extend black civil and political rights.
Botha said the special session would consider eight apartheid reform bills.
Jackson's group to be Democrat faction
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Jesse Jackson said yesterday he would turn his 1984 Rainbow Coalition, which he called the new majority in the nation, into a progressive organization within the Democratic
Jackson said that the coalition, which served as the base of his campaign for the presidential nomination, was not anti-Democrat and that its would function as enlightened Democrats.
"We are the new majority in this nation and we will reach out and affirm that new majority." Jackson said at a news conference opening the convention of the National Rainbow Coalition.
vention of the National Rainbow Committee. He was flanked by leaders of labor, peace and farm groups, black elected officials and members of the Democratic National Committee.
of the Democratic Movement. Although the Rainbow Coalition has remained in existence, the convention will seek to institutionalize the movement and begin building congressional and state district organizations to back candidates and — perhaps as a base structu-
ture should Jackson run again for the presidency in 1988.
"We will leave the convention with a readiness to re-establish a more sound basis of our relationships with the Democratic Parties," he said. "We will also work to ensure that we democratize the procedures at every level."
"What is missing among progressives is power," Jackson said.
The convention would determine any national involvement in the remaining primaries and general election between now and 1988, Jackson said.
The Associated Press
Cuban rebels of'61 recall bay invasion
MIAIAM — Cubans who fought on their homeland's beaches 25 years ago, yesterday solemnly marked the anniversary of their failure to overthrow Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs and then rallied boisterously in support of the contras battling Nicaragua's government.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, led more than 2,000 people, including invasion veterans, federal, state and city officials, and retired U.S. intelligence operatives, in the dedication of a Little Havana commemorating the invasion.
Kirkpatrick, a favorite among Cuban exiles because of her strong anti-communism beliefs, said Castro's victory at the Bay of Pigs had been followed by Soviet agents who present dangers to U.S. security and that of the other nations of the Americas."
Kirkpatrick saluted them as the first contras and said, "There are many lessons to be learned from the Bay of Pigs."
"In communist Nicaragua, we
can see already that Fidel's reach is extending to help leftist rebels in neighboring Central American nations." Kirkpatrick said.
She also warned that Libyan strongman Moammar Khadhyah had advisers in Nicaragua to practice to Latin American leftists.
Kirkpatrick also read a letter from President Reagan that expressed his admiration for the Bay of Pigs veterans and said he shared their hope for a democratic Cuba.
Kirkpatrick said Americans must demand that Congress step up aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. The Nicaraguan was received with wild aplause.
Miguel Alvarez, president of the veterans organization, drew the loudest applause when he cheered the U.S. raid on Libya and called for similar strong action against Cuba, Nicaragua, Angola and other countries where Castro has sent Cuban soldiers.
About 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban mounted the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. During the battle, 114 were killed and nearly 1,200 were taken prisoner.
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