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Armed with spears, knives, axes and the occasional AK-47, rival supporters of the African National Congress and the Zulu-led Inkatha Freedom Party fought one another day and night in the townships of Johannesburg last week. At least 100 were killed, including two nephews of Nelson Mandela. The struggle between the two groups has escalated this year, and President F.W. de Klerk warned last week that if the violence is not stopped, the country faces civil...
...Among the people I like to think of as useful role models are author- educator W.E.B. Dubois, civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, South African leader Nelson Mandela, novelist Toni Morrison. And poet Phillis Wheatley: she was a genius. She learned English when she was about seven, and by the age of 15 she was publishing poems as sophisticated as any American who was publishing in the 18th century. We need to make that common knowledge, as common as the fact that Michael Jordan can do the triple quadruple backward dunk...
That the president of Harvard so openly and aggressively opposed divestment will make it difficult, or at least embarrassing, for Harvard to invite leading advocates of divestment to campus: Nelson Mandela of Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, for example. Most importantly, Rudenstine's behavior demonstrates insensitivity to issues of concern to minority groups--an inappropriate message for Harvard's president...
TURNING to the world stage, Harvard could invite Nelson Mandela. If the University is really daring, it could extend an invitation to Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese democrat who has been in jail since 1979. Now that Anatoly Sharansky and Mandela are free, Wei has the unfortunate distinction of being the political dissident who has been imprisoned for the longest time. Harvard could embarrass the Chinese dictators and give a nudge to one of the world's last nightmarish Communist regimes...
...city of Phoenix has lost some 60 gatherings, worth $37 million, following last November's rejection of a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by Arizona voters. Miami is still suffering from a boycott by blacks incensed over the city's snubbing last summer of Nelson Mandela. Economic damage to date: $5.4 million. When the San Francisco board of supervisors declared the city a sanctuary for Persian Gulf war resisters, it drew bitter complaints from hundreds of angry convention managers and tourists. The controversial tactic seems to be having some effect. Faced with the possible loss of the Super Bowl...