The World - News from July 17, 1987
South Africa said it is indefinitely withdrawing its ambassador-designate to France in a dispute over the jailing of a French teacher in a black South African homeland. Foreign Minister Roelof F. (Pik) Botha accused President Francois Mitterrand of acting in a “spiteful, inappropriate manner” for refusing to accept Ambassador Hendrik Geldenhuys’ credentials in protest to the imprisonment of Pierre-Andre Albertini. Albertini, 27, was jailed for four years in the black homeland of Ciskei earlier this year for refusing to testify in a terrorism trial against members of the banned African National Congress.
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