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- <text id=91TT1823>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Into the Lion's Den
- </hdr><body>
- <p> President F.W. de Klerk was pulling no punches. In a speech
- before his governing National Party in the conservative
- stronghold of Ventersdorp last week, he accused right-wing
- groups like the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.) of
- "looking for trouble." Even as he spoke, local A.W.B. extremists
- who oppose his dismantling of apartheid were doing just that.
- Hundreds, clad in khaki, marched on the hall where he was
- appearing and clashed with police in a melee that left at least
- three dead and 53 injured.
- </p>
- <p> Officers hurled tear gas at the protesters. Amid the
- smoke, sporadic gunfire rang out for 15 minutes as authorities
- drove back the advancing A.W.B. members. A block away whites
- hurled rocks at a van carrying blacks. When the vehicle lost
- control and toppled into the crowd, killing one extremist,
- enraged whites opened fire and at least four blacks were
- injured. Ironically, De Klerk came to Ventersdorp to seek the
- support of rural white conservatives, who are rapidly deserting
- the National Party because of his reforms.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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