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CROWN MINES, South Africa--More than 70,000 Blacks chanting in triumph welcomed freed leaders of the outlawed African National Congress on Sunday at the largest anti-government rally in the country's history...
...Today, the ANC has captured center stage in South Africa," said Walter Sisulu, 77, the group's former general secretary, from a podium erected beneath huge banners of the ANC and the South African Communist Party. He and six ANC colleagues were freed unconditionally from prison October 15. All but one had spent at least 25 years in prison...
Sisulu said his movement would never abandon its guerrilla campaign unilaterally but would consider suspending violence and entering talks if the government freed all political prisoners, legalized the ANC and lifted the 40-month-old state of emergency...
...rights movement gestated in Southern black churches. Most important U.S. publications failed to take much notice. But Flip Schulke persevered by contracting with black-owned Ebony and Jet. With the deployment of troops in Little Rock in 1957 and the rise of civil disobedience, the work of Schulke, Leonard Freed, Dan Weiner and others received wide exposure...
...Freed by Mikhail Gorbachev to report on the corrupt and famous, Soviet journalists are busy pushing glasnost toward its tabloid outer limits -- tracking down space visitors and exploring psychic mysteries. Science takes a whirl with fantasy. Fiction runs away with the facts. Humanoids abduct humans...