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...Laurent's 1990 offerings were inspired largely by highlights of his old collections, most of the other designers were looking closely at various costume spectacles during France's bicentennial last summer. This fall the thing most likely to cover the knee will be the hem of a grand swirling cape; almost every designer had his models sweeping the runways with them...
...Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers. Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not think there has been any fundamental change in the policy of the national government," he said...
Through the week, Mandela demonstrated an acute sensitivity to the many different audiences he now has to satisfy. Inevitably, his every word was scrutinized, and each pronouncement he made brought both cheers and catcalls. His initial speech on the steps of Cape Town's city hall seemed designed to signal that years of imprisonment had not taken the fight out of Mandela. "Now is the time to intensify the struggle," he exhorted. While he also stated that "there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle," his words alarmed some whites, who were particularly discomfited by Mandela...
...local time on Sunday, Feb. 11, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster Prison Farm near Cape Town -- free at last. It was, said an announcer for the official South African Broadcasting Corp., "the moment that a majority of South Africans, and the world, have been waiting...
...whole loaf, but De Klerk's speech delivered more than most veteran black leaders had expected. Popo Molefe, Secretary-General of the United Democratic Front, the largest domestic antiapartheid coalition, told the cheering Cape Town crowd that of all the white leaders, "De Klerk has taken the boldest step and is the most courageous." Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate, said the speech "has certainly taken my breath away," and his fellow campaigner, the Rev. Allan Boesak, was surprised "that he met so many of the demands...