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...Well, how about if I let Fred Schernecker hit two straight three pointers. And maybe even a two-pointer, too?" the Hoop God suggested. "I could lift the curse on James and let the fellow score eight straight points late in the half...
...long worried that when Mandela appeared on the streets of Soweto once again, black townships all over the country would explode into uncontrollable demonstrations. De Klerk still worries about that. After announcing Mandela's release, he called for calm and stability as the "conditions that would enable me to lift the state of emergency." He made it clear that the government will monitor Mandela's homecoming to test law- and-order in the black townships...
...early to lift sanctions, but it is a time to celebrate," said Imraan Coovadia '92, a South African student who spoke at the rally...
...unlikely event of a hostile Soviet move. "We need at least another year to determine whether the Soviet conventional restructuring is irreversible," argues James Blackwell, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. This can be accomplished by having the Navy buy fast sea-lift ships that could transport U.S.-based soldiers to Europe in a crisis. The Air Force, similarly, should keep a powerful force of attack aircraft that could leap overseas on short notice. In addition, the military should maintain supply depots in Europe . stocked with tanks, artillery and ammunition...
...black opposition groups as conditions for the start of talks on a new constitution. Most important, he promised to release the world's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela, now in his 28th year of imprisonment, though he did not say when. De Klerk legalized more than 60 banned organizations, lifted emergency restrictions on the press and on 374 political activists, suspended executions and put a six-month limit on detentions without trial. He also promised to lift the remaining elements of the state of emergency imposed in 1986 "as soon as circumstances justify it." Said De Klerk: "The season...