The World - News from Aug. 11, 1986
Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress, the principal guerrilla organization fighting white rule in South Africa, is willing to meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz to discuss ways of dismantling the apartheid system, Zambian President Kenneth D. Kaunda said. Shultz told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month that he was ready to hold unconditional talks with Tambo and would tell him of strong U.S. opposition to violence as a political tool. The Reagan Administration has until recently refused to have formal talks with the ANC, which it regards as Communist-dominated.
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