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...Although she?s unlikely to face any legal punishment, ANC leaders appear to be once again considering banishing her to the political wilderness. That, of course, would revive their ten-year-old dilemma of whether she is more dangerous to them outside than inside the ANC...
...memorable displays of his charisma came in an episode of Ted Koppel's "Nightline" which, on this special occasion, was televised before a live American audience. At one point during a break in the questions Koppel had been posing to his guest, the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) asked, "Have I paralyzed you?" evoking vociferous laughter and applause...
...stuff to make any other world figure envious. Still, many wondered, what could possibly have possessed the man to squander his hard-earned prestige when he was so quickly approaching the status of an icon? In the ensuing discourse, a number of explanations were proffered to account for the ANC leader's tactlessness...
Indeed, an uncomfortable irony seems to have escaped the notice of most observers: While Libya remains on the state department's terrorism blacklist, Qaddafi was given the Good Hope award precisely for his early assistance of the ANC in its struggle against Apartheid, a struggle which often took the form of terrorist attacks against South African civilians...
...fact that the ANC resorted to terrorism against South African civilians in the latter years of the struggle to end Apartheid undoubtedly caused the group to simplisticly infer connections with the causes of Arafat, Qaddafi and more recently, Assad. The ANC's associations with the pariahs of the world delegitimized an otherwise legitimate cause and only made it more difficult for the ANC's non-Marxist, non-terrorist sympathizers to support them. Pretoria's continued pursuit of these relationships in the face of Western objections raises important foreign policy considerations for Washington...