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When William W. Burke-White '98 met former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev at the State of the World Forum in San Francisco last year, they discussed ways to bring young world leaders into a meaningful political and social discourse...
That meeting sowed the seeds for the Global Peace Forum, a conference founded by Burke-White and the Gorbachev Foundation. The Forum is scheduled to take place in Moscow in July 1999 and is being organized by Burke-White and a number of other Harvard students...
...tentative speaker list reads like a who's who of international peace advocates. Besides Gorbachev, former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama are included in the program...
...departure of De Klerk, who has been described as South Africa's Gorbachev because he began a reform process that swept him from power, is unlikely to have any effect on the powerful majority commanded by the ANC. But, says De Klerk, a reformed and renewed all-race National Party has a leading role to play in the restructuring of the political landscape in South Africa. There is a belief in the opposition camp, meanwhile, that like De Klerk, the National Party could become a victim of its own reforms...
...Despite all that has happened, De Klerk still seems to cling to the Gorbachev image. The first order of business in his post-political life is ? you've guessed it ? a book deal...