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...then one day he returns. After 20 years, one finally sees his face. ^ Nelson Mandela's face too was hidden from the world for decades. When finally revealed, it had the grace, the radiance that fit the legend. Fischer? The face that 20 years ago was lean and sharp and taut is now merely gnarled. His manner, once simply eccentric, is wild and embarrassing...
...retributions were equally predictable. The A.N.C. blamed the government of President F.W. de Klerk, which props up the puppet Ciskei regime and trains its army. The incident, said A.N.C. President Nelson Mandela, will add to De Klerk's "roll call of infamy." The South African President said he had warned Mandela of the possibility of violence in the A.N.C.'s mass-action campaign against Ciskei and announced that there could no longer be any political negotiations with the A.N.C. until the question of the "vortex of violence" had been dealt with...
Ironically, the bloodshed on the road to Bisho may serve to bring De Klerk and Mandela together. The A.N.C. said it was "prepared to participate" in a summit which would break months of bitter estrangement between the two leaders. And Foreign Minister R.F. ("Pik") Botha has asked the United Nations not just for observers but also for a mediator to help curb the violence and get the constitutional negotiations back on track. Given the mutual mistrust that has existed for decades between South Africa and the U.N., that appeal underlined South Africa's desperation...
...campaign to take power from the white government, South Africa's black majority has two main weapons: mass protest and international pressure. Most economic and sports sanctions imposed from abroad have now been lifted -- as South Africa's participation in the Barcelona Olympics attests -- so Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress have increased their efforts at home...
...speech to the marchers, Mandela made it clear that the protest was not intended actually to topple the President but to press him into faster movement toward a multiracial interim government. "We have not come here to gloat," he said. "We are here to take South Africa along the road to peace and democracy." De Klerk said later he had been talking privately with the A.N.C. and was "confident that negotiations will be resumed...