Word: klerk
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State President F.W. de Klerk was still delivering his opening-day speech before Parliament when an antiapartheid leader interrupted a protest rally four blocks away to deliver "a very important message." Some 3,000 demonstrators, massed in searing sunshine across from the Cape Town city hall, fell silent as she announced, "The A.N.C. has been unbanned." The gathering seemed stunned at the news that the African National Congress, the leading force in the fight against apartheid, outlawed and in exile since 1960, would once again be a legal participant in the nation's politics. Then someone shouted, "Amandla!" (power...
South African President F.W. de Klerk plunged his country into chaos a week ago Friday by announcing the legalization of Black opposition groups, the imminent release of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson R. Mandela and the lifting of restrictions on anti-apartheid organizations...
...when Tutu came to Sunday's regular meeting--just after South African President F.W. de Klerk had announced plans for substantial reform--he was asked to speak about his country's situation. After that meeting, he said he sensed willingness among other overseers to reopen discussion of selling Harvard's $139 million in South Africa-related holdings...
...impressed that Tutu attended the meeting only two days afterSouth African President F.W. De Klerk promised therelease of Nelson Mandela and the legalization ofanti-apartheid groups...
...search of a just and peaceful future, millions of blacks and whites look to Mandela and President F.W. de Klerk to negotiate on power sharing. The education of De Klerk. -- What role did sanctions play? -- Mikhail Gorbachev faces another Afghanistan in Azerbaijan, and a Soviet general offers an eyewitness account of the bloodshed...