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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?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 41
World Notes
SOUTH AFRICA
Into the Lion's Den
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<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.
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<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.
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