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...economic sanctions against South Africa. Whites saw their nation becoming an international pariah. Realizing he needed Mandela, Botha arranged a meeting with him at the presidential residence, Tuynhuys, in Cape Town in July 1989 -- Mandela had been slipped out of prison for the purpose. The two issued a joint communique committing themselves, in general terms, to peace. A month later, Botha, whose authoritarian style had impeded real progress, was nudged out of office by party leaders. Though he was no one's idea of a revolutionary, De Klerk had carefully watched Botha's struggles...
Shali in Somalia Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili went to Somalia last week to firm up plans for the March 31 withdrawal of U.S. troops. Germany and Italy confirmed that they will also pull out their peacekeepers when the Americans...
...Yitzhak Rabin was more complicated. They were supposed to meet in Cairo on Dec. 12 or 13, but their schedule (not to mention their peace agreement) was in flux, especially given the violence erupting in the occupied territories. Both sides had consented in theory to give TIME a joint interview in Cairo, which would have been a historic scoop (and convenient under the circumstances), but in case of a hitch there had to be a plan for seeing them separately, at P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis and in Jerusalem. How in the world would all TIME's party -- including the correspondents...
North Korea and South Korea once viewed their encounters in international sporting competitions as proxy warfare. And therein lies the symbolic importance of their decision, announced Tuesday, to field a joint team for the 2006 Asian Games and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The once-bitter enemies had already marched together in opening ceremonies at the two previous Olympiads in Sydney and Athens. But fielding a joint team is a major affirmation of the principle that the separate states of North Korea and South Korea nonetheless constitute a single nation. It is also a victory for Seoul, which has been...
...agreeing to field a joint Olympic team, North Korea could be making another play to South Korean public opinion. That's fine with Seoul as long as it advances detente. But the Olympic decision won't be cost-free for the South: Seoul may have to sacrifice some of its athletes to make room for North Koreans on the team rosters. It will also likely end up footing the bills for the joint team, as it has in the past for inter-Korean sporting events. But for many South Koreans, that will be a small price...