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De Klerk 'will disband' controversial army units

Tuesday 14 July 1992 23:02 BST
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Johannesburg (Reuter) - President F W de Klerk said yesterday, on the eve of a UN Security Council meeting on South Africa, he would disband a controversial army unit accused by blacks of fomenting township violence. Mr de Klerk said 32 Battalion, a white- led unit of black soldiers mainly from Angola, would be withdrawn from all black townships by today.

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