SOUTH AFRICA: Vorster Quits

A final report on Muldergate

" 'They say you are not telling the truth. I say, John, you know it is so. And you know that I know it is so. And you know that Connie Mulder knows it is so.' He shrugged and said, 'Yes, it is so.' And I said, 'But John, it can't go on like that. The thing will destroy you.' "

The "John" in that conversation was Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 63, Prime Minister of South Africa for twelve years and its President for the past nine months. The speaker was...

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