Mondale briefing

Press, 23 May 1977, Page 8

Mondale briefing

NZPA-Reuter London The United States Vice-1 President (Mr Walter Mon-; dale) is in London to brief; British leaders on his un-1 yielding talks with South I ! Africa’s Prime Minister (Mr! Vorster). i He left Belgrade with a! .warning from President Titoj jtha-t fighting in southern! I Africa was a serious threat; Ito world peace. Mr Mondale met President ' ;Tito only 24 hours after end-! ling two days of talks on; (South Africa’s apartheid sysitem and the establishment of ■ black majority rule in Rho-! desia and Namibia (South ■ West Africa) with Mr Vor-i ster in Vienna. The United States and Britain are jointly trying to work out a negotiated settlement which would give RhoI desia, the rebel British co- • lony, legal independence and ■ a black government by next (year. In Vienna Mr Vorster told ; Mr Mondale that he believed | I that stability of Africa was I (threatened by an increasing! j communist presence in a I number of African’ countries. ■ Mr Mondale said that South Africa’s policy of racial segregation was a cause of tension in the area, and that the United States would ( keep up pressure to end it. j