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...moment, the outlook is promising after so many years of political stalemate. In a major breakthrough, the A.N.C.'s national executive committee announced late in the week, from its base of exile in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, that it will send a delegation to South Africa to begin talks with De Klerk. The date is not yet fixed, but when the meeting takes place it will be the first such consultation ever between representatives of the exiled guerrilla leaders and the government...
...remains unclear whether the talks between the government and the A.N.C. will begin before or after Mandela flies to Lusaka this week to confer with the organization's leaders. Negotiations may be further delayed if Mandela decides to make a world tour, meeting with the ailing A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo in Stockholm, visiting A.N.C. guerrilla camps in Tanzania and perhaps accepting invitations from President George Bush and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to visit their countries...
...will re-enter the country's political life and who will take part in talks must still be worked out. Mandela is almost universally viewed as a leader of the A.N.C., but he now holds no official post in the Congress and is technically responsible to its leaders in Lusaka. He will have to work out with them just what formal role he will play...
...Gerrit Viljoen, who as Minister for Constitutional Development is the government's chief negotiator, De Klerk's sole precondition for A.N.C. participation is a "peaceful commitment to a negotiated resolution." That is something the A.N.C. has yet to address definitively. Two weeks ago, the A.N.C. national executive in Lusaka adopted a platform, based on a ten-point plan sent by Mandela through intermediaries, affirming the group's commitment to negotiations and offering a truce if De Klerk meets its conditions for talks...
Those actions will depend on the behavior of Mandela and the A.N.C. In its 78th anniversary message from Lusaka last week, the A.N.C. urged an intensification of the armed struggle against the South African government. Privately, however, A.N.C. officials admitted that they had reduced their military operations and that if De Klerk delivered a reasonable package of reforms, they would be prepared to talk about talks...