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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesSOUTH AFRICALeaning on the White Right
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- For decades, most of the South Africans arrested for
- political protest have been black. But now that the government
- has entered formal negotiations for a new constitution with black
- political parties, including the African National Congress,
- President F.W. de Klerk is signaling a more evenhanded approach.
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- Last week police arrested Eugene Terre Blanche, head of
- the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, and nine of his
- most senior lieutenants, and charged them with public violence.
- The government's action followed a lengthy investigation of a
- violent clash between Terre Blanche's pro-apartheid brownshirts
- and police last August in which three people were killed
- outside a meeting hall where De Klerk was speaking.
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- Terre Blanche, a former policeman, complained that his
- 10-year-old daughter had to watch him being arrested. Another
- of the right-wing movement's leaders, Piet Rudolph, seemed
- unaware of the irony when he said, "This is what one should
- expect in a police state."
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