Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...A.N.C. has an elected leadership. Whatever Mandela does, he first has to consult those leaders. Although the A.N.C. recognizes Mandela's standing, he cannot direct the group. What he can do, and what he has done, is communicate with the movement, reporting what he has done or what is being said to him ((by the government...
...Monday, Greenspan declared that Federal Reserve officials "have kept in productive contact with our counterparts abroad" and that "coordination exists at a detailed level" between the Fed, the Treasury, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates futures markets. Wall Streeters immediately dubbed the cooperating agencies the "Group of Four...
Banned since 1960, the A.N.C. vividly returned to the South African political stage last week. By releasing several A.N.C. leaders without restricting their activities, and by allowing their celebrations to take place unhindered, the government seemed to grant the group a sort of provisional legal status. The leaders will appear at an A.N.C. rally in Soweto this Sunday, the first such assembly to be permitted in 30 years. State President F.W. de Klerk was beginning to make good on the promise he made at his inauguration last month to ease tensions and move the country into...
...international pressure as well as by its desire to avoid further economic sanctions. While no one from the government notified Sisulu's wife Albertina that he was to be released, De Klerk found time to telephone British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to tell her he was freeing a group of aging black leaders as she had urged him to do. Thatcher took that news with her to the Commonwealth conference in Kuala Lumpur last week, where she opposed all proposals for additional sanctions. This malleability was something new for Pretoria, however. "The classic Afrikaner response is never to be seen...
...negotiate with the usurpers of our land." While most black leaders agree that De Klerk has set off in a new direction, they remain skeptical because of the destination he has in mind. De Klerk's policy, fully endorsed by the ruling National Party, is one of constitutionally guaranteed "group rights" defined by race, including the right of whites to veto legislation they might consider threatening, to live in whites-only neighborhoods and to attend segregated schools. "Ethnic and cultural ; differences exist," says Viljoen, "and should be recognized in a new constitution...