Volume 31, Number 1 · February 2, 1984
The Coming Struggle for Power
By Mark A. Uhlig
The element in South Africa's deadlocked racial conflict that may turn out to be the most important is the very one that Washington has chosen to ignore—the guerrillas of the exiled African National Congress (ANC). While the Reagan administration has repeatedly urged close US involvement with the white regime as the best way to promote change in South African racial policies, it has refused any sort of contact with the ANC. Yet by ignoring the ANC's growing power and position, and the unprecedented support it now enjoys from South Africa's increasingly militant black majority, the United States risks finding itself stranded on one edge of that country's widening racial chasm, tied to the wrong allies for the wrong reasons against the wrong odds.
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