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- WORLD, Page 27World NotesSOUTH AFRICAAre Only the Initials New?
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- Trailing King Lear-like complaints of being ignored, President
- P.W. Botha, 73, resigned last week. National Party leader F.W. de
- Klerk was named acting President by the Cabinet until next month's
- parliamentary elections can formalize the succession. The question
- is whether this change will make a difference.
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- None at all, sniffed Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "It is
- just a change of initials from P.W. to F.W.," said the Nobel
- laureate. Other black leaders took the same view, noting that while
- De Klerk talks of dismantling apartheid, he supports segregation
- in housing, education and politics.
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- De Klerk insisted that the country was on the "threshold of a
- new era" and announced he would meet on Aug. 28 with Zambian
- President Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda is expected to press De Klerk to
- negotiate with the outlawed African National Congress.