As Pretoria continues a crackdown, Reagan denounces apartheid
According to Ronald Reagan, it was a matter of conscience. Administration critics suspected that he had political considerations in mind. Whatever the reason, the President last week felt a need to retreat, at least briefly, from one of his Administration's most staunchly held foreign strategies. In an International Human Rights Day address, Reagan paused in a litany of familiar themes (the Soviets' "barbaric war" in Afghanistan, Iran's persecution of the Baha'i religious minority) to broach a surprise topic. "The U.S. has said on many...
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