Word: mandelas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitterand: Easy, P.W. Letting Mandela out of jail would give the masses more fortitude we may not be able to counter. Our valuable capital is at stake. The U.S. defense industry might go under without the precious metals you provide them. We're all depending...
...have enough leverage to cause some real problems. They could demand an end to apartheid, call for universal suffrage, or, even worse, take control of their workplace by setting up worker delegations of their own. Not even the Soviets would touch that. Maybe I should just capitulate, release Nelson Mandela and head for Santa Barbara. Besides, sometimes I sort of feels sorry for those 22 million Blacks. You'll have to admit, the way we run things does here is a little unfair...
...double the level of a year ago. Days later, at Vaal Reefs, the world's largest gold mine, black workers struck for higher pay, in defiance of the mine's management, who insisted that the walkout was illegal. As unrest continued in several black townships, Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela, said in a television interview that she foresaw nothing but more bloodshed: "I am afraid one can only visualize very tragic times ahead of us if the government is not prepared to dismantle apartheid...
...races. Less than three weeks before the rioting at Crossroads, the government had pledged to suspend, and reassess, its policy of forcibly resettling blacks. A week before the sudden arrest of the opposition leaders, attention was focused on Executive President P.W. Botha's offer to release Nelson Mandela, 67, the nation's best-known political prisoner, and to recognize Mandela's outlawed, militant African National Congress on condition that the A.N.C. lay down its arms. But the eruptions last week suggested that peaceful negotiations between South Africa's white rulers and their black opponents may still be a distant prospect...
...such liberalizing measures are welcome steps away from apartheid, they are clearly insufficient for Mandela, who cried rhetorically from his cell last week, "What freedom am I being offered when I must ask permission to live in an urban area? What freedom am I being offered when I need a stamp in my pass to seek work...