The World - News from Oct. 25, 1985

South Africa ruled out any embargo on its sales of strategic metals to the West in retaliation for sanctions against Pretoria over apartheid. Finance Minister Barend du Plessis, clarifying remarks by President Pieter W. Botha, said Botha had mentioned the effects on Western industry of a cutoff of South African chrome exports “to illustrate his firmly held opinion that boycotts and sanctions of any kind are fundamentally foolish. It was definitely not a threat. . . . “