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Since almost three-quarters of the potential voters are black and a majority of them back the A.N.C., this might look easy. It is not. Last week a boycott of the election by an odd-fellows alliance of blacks and conservative whites looked certain when talks with the A.N.C. and the government over ethnic autonomy sputtered to a near halt as the deadline to get on the ballot passed. Some die-hard whites have voted against participation. Additional pressure came from Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who told President F.W. de Klerk that if the interim constitution did not give more...
...them live in rural areas far from the reach of campaign rallies and party workers. The tactics of the A.N.C. over the past 10 years led its & followers to scorn the local pseudoelections of the apartheid era rather than take part in them. "We come from a tradition of boycott politics," says national campaign chief Popo Molefe, who was convicted of treason in 1988 as a leader of the antigovernment United Democratic Front. "The vast majority of our people are not oriented toward participation. Now we have to teach them...
...impossible for him to act without the support of Congress. With that in mind, National Security Adviser Tony Lake made a trip up to Capitol Hill last fall to pay a call on John Kerry, Massachusetts' highly decorated Vietnam veteran. The President, Lake explained, was prepared to end the boycott, but he needed political cover. And cover he got. Within weeks, both Kerry and Arizona Republican John McCain, another veteran, had made trips to Hanoi and returned issuing statements that Vietnam was cooperating fully on the MIAS. That set the stage last week for the nonbinding vote, the closest thing...
...Israel carrying out the accord also means substantial economic benefits, in the form of an end to the Arab economic boycott and the start of trade with Arab countries...
Court kills Colorado antigay amendment that triggered boycott...