"It takes one word to characterize the meetings," said an American participant at the close of last week's discussions between Vice President Walter Mondale and South African Prime Minister John Vorster: "Tough." And so they were. After 8% hours of talks in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, Mondale grimly told a press conference that the U.S. and South Africa were in "fundamental and profound disagreement" over the Pretoria government's policies, particularly apartheid. In what appeared to be a substantive turning point in relations between the two countries, Mondale added with almost startling candor:...
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