The World : Curbs on S. Africa Opposed

Britain made clear that it will resist attempts at this week’s Commonwealth conference to impose economic sanctions on South Africa. Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, in an article in the Sunday Times of London, wrote that sanctions would “destroy neighboring African economies as well as damaging our own.” Howe also said that some recent South African reforms “cannot be dismissed as irrelevant.” In Johannesburg, meanwhile, four white opposition politicians who met with African National Congress rebels said the two delegations agreed on dismantling apartheid but not on how to accomplish it.