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WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Parties Temporarily Bury the Hatchet

From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Leading South African political parties patched up the latest crisis in their democracy talks but acknowledged that a final showdown had only been postponed. The government’s chief negotiator, Roelf Meyer, defused at least temporarily the anger of six conservative black and white groups, the Concerned South Africans Group, by placing on the agenda their demand that South Africa become a federation of autonomous regions.

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