The World - News from Feb. 3, 1986

The South African government bought two pages in major Sunday newspapers to publish a letter by President Pieter W. Botha stating his commitment to “power sharing” among black and whites. The letter followed Botha’s speech Friday to Parliament in which he declared apartheid, the nation’s system of racial separation, to be outdated. Meanwhile, police said they shot dead three more blacks--two women and a man--in anti-apartheid rioting outside Johannesburg and Pretoria. They also arrested two black nuns after the funeral of another riot victim.