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Nobel For South Africans Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize for working ''to peacefully end apartheid'' in South Africa...
...still a chicken- and-egg argument: Who or which comes first, the revolution or the revolutionary, the reformer or the reformation, the parade or the person leading it? The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize last week to Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, and F.W. de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa, bolsters both sides of this timeworn debate. De Klerk is pre- eminently an individual who has been pushed forward by the tide of events, a man of conservative bent who has been prodded by historical forces to act progressively, even boldly...
...There were times he washed his hands of people - and times when, like so many people of great charm, he allowed himself to be charmed. Mandela initially developed a quick rapport with South African President F.W. de Klerk, which is why he later felt so betrayed when De Klerk attacked him in public...
...Klerk followed that statement with one of regret...
...Klerk, who led South Africa from 1989 to 1994, shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years for challenging apartheid policies but later freed by de Klerk...