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...Months later, he retracted this judgment. As the intense bargaining between them began, Mandela was first startled and then outraged to discover that De Klerk was not a meek facilitator of historical inevitability but a tough, grudging opponent. De Klerk kept attempting to insert into any proposed power- sharing agreement checks and balances that would still give whites some guarantees of a voice in future governments. Mandela bridled and complained that the National Party ''keeps looking for ways to exercise power even if it loses a democratic election.'' Both men have tempers that are ordinarily tamed in public. In private...
...think it is necessary for De Klerk to apologize. It is what a person does to ensure that the most brutal system of racial oppression is completely eliminated from our society. DE KLERK: I don't want to sound vindictive, but I am relatively satisfied with the agreement. I don't see that we have made any fundamental concessions on principle -- practical concessions, yes. MANDELA: There is no question of compromising on majority rule. But there has been a demand for federalism. The regions can draw up their own constitutions. They can make their own laws and impose taxation...
...Yitzhak Rabin's modest office in western Jerusalem expect their sessions with him to be strictly business. He is known to be abrupt, omitting from such visits so much as hello or goodbye. The office is hectic. Chants of angry Jewish settlers camped outside to protest the peace agreement fade in and out. A delegation of conservative Knesset members argue against giving weapons to the future Palestinian police force. But Rabin is calm, almost relaxed. Those who know him well say that since he signed the Declaration of Principles with Arafat, his manner has softened; he smiles more and grimaces...
...political destruction at the hands of his friends. Rabin's confidence is that of a proven warrior committed to peace -- a ''carnivorous dove,'' as Ariel Sharon put it. Rabin told aides privately that he was prepared to step ahead even if most Israelis were not ready. ''For a peace agreement,'' he told them, ''the people will support us.'' But not all the people. Both men are dangerously flanked by extremists. Muslim fundamentalists and other militant factions have vowed to break any deal that delivers less than an independent Palestinian state now, this instant. Fanatical settlers and other right-wing Jews...
According to both UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and McCambridge, the Concert Commission has until tomorrow to back out of its contractual agreement with Wyclef Jean...