The World - News from Aug. 22, 1989
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The Organization of African Unity laid down tough conditions for talks with the South African government, adopting a nine-page strategy document that endorses the known negotiating position of the African National Congress, South Africa’s main black nationalist group. The document, adopted by an OAU ad hoc committee meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, calls on Pretoria to lift the existing state of emergency, free political prisoners, end a ban on political organizations and restrictions on individuals, withdraw troops from black townships and end political trials and executions.
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