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...just age, however, that makes Kim appear frail. When he came to office nearly five years ago, he was a towering moral figure?Asia's Nelson Mandela, according to his many admirers. Jailed, beaten and threatened with death, he was the face of the struggle for democracy in South Korea. You felt he had the chance to become not just a good President but a great one. But with barely three months to go before he hands over power to the winner of South Korea's Dec. 19 presidential election, Kim has become a lonely, almost tragic figure, deeply unpopular...
...DIED. WOLFIE KODESH, 84, veteran South African Communist Party activist who played a leading role in the fight against apartheid; in Cape Town. Kodesh was known for providing refuge to those on the run from the apartheid regime, and once safeguarded Nelson Mandela for two months in his one-room flat in the east coast town of Berea. In 1964, Kodesh was detained without trial, then exiled to Britain where he continued to work for Mandela's African National Congress. Kodesh returned to South Africa in 1991 as the apartheid system began to crumble. Believing that the cloak-and-dagger...
...People say to me, ‘It’ll never work, you’re an idealist,’” she said. “But it’s happened...Ghandi...Mandela...These people were viewed as total idealists...
...form a white, Afrikaner state, a throwback to the republics of the Boer War era - meaning that all blacks and Asians would be "chased out." The group also branded Afrikaner politicians, such as former President F.W. de Klerk - who negotiated the transition to democratic rule with Nelson Mandela - as traitors for "selling out" the Afrikaners. Crazy as the group may sound, the Farmers' Force cannot be dismissed as harmless fantasists. Some of the documents indicate a sophisticated knowledge of the technical details of military and police installations and equipment. "These weren't dreamed up by a delusional idealist," says Martin...
...easy, and not just because the President doesn't have the delicately modulated tones of the men in striped pants. (As a South Korean official once said, "George Bush speaks with an iron tongue.") If you do nothing but read the headlines, it would seem that everyone from Nelson Mandela to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder is implacably opposed to a war with Iraq. Both in the Arab world and in Europe, it is feared that unseating Saddam will inflame Muslim opinion, already incensed by American support for Israel in its struggle with the Palestinians. Next, it's said that...