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...grisly outcome was predictable. The 60,000 African National Congress supporters who marched to the border of South Africa's so-called independent homeland of Ciskei were not unexpected. The chanting A.N.C. demonstrators had vowed to storm the capital, Bisho, and unseat the military government of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. When they broke through a gap in a razor-wire fence at the border, trigger-happy troops of the Ciskei army began shooting directly into the crowd. After two prolonged bursts of gunfire, 28 people lay dead in pools of blood; another 400 were wounded, either by gunfire...
Ironically, the bloodshed on the road to Bisho may serve to bring De Klerk and Mandela together. The A.N.C. said it was "prepared to participate" in a summit which would break months of bitter estrangement between the two leaders. And Foreign Minister R.F. ("Pik") Botha has asked the United Nations not just for observers but also for a mediator to help curb the violence and get the constitutional negotiations back on track. Given the mutual mistrust that has existed for decades between South Africa and the U.N., that appeal underlined South Africa's desperation...
...undoubtedly persistent. When the black "homeland" threw itself a raucous second-birthday party, the flagpole stood firm. As motorcycle teams, tribal dancers and drum majorettes performed in the local stadium, President Lennox Leslie Wongoma Sebe, 57, Homburg-hatted and morning-suited, cruised through the streets of Bisho, his capital city, in a black Cadillac. Then, guarded by a gang of security men in ill-fitting suits and sunglasses, Sebe led a flag-waving crowd through a spirited rendition of Lord Bless Africa, the national anthem. "The golden egg of development has been laid," Sebe is fond of saying...
Delegates also approved a resolution cal ing for a vigorous, worldwide evangelist] campaign in 1953, the 250th anniversar of the birth of Methodism's founder, Joh Wesley. As the titular leader of U.S. Mett odists, Philadelphia's 56-year-old Bisho Fred P. Corson, new president of the Metf odist Council of Bishops, puts the emphasi on attracting youth. "The Communist! Fascists and ultra-fundamentalists, like tb Youth for Christ," he said, "all came t power via the youth movement. We mu< face that fact and recognize that they suf plies some sort of inner urge...
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