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BRENDA FASSIE: BRENDA FASSIE (SBK). An American debut album with heavy credentials, having more to do with politics than music. Fassie and Nelson Mandela claim tribal kinship, but the first fleet sounds of the African- inflected, dance-floor-destined opening cut blow away any notions of obligation to genealogy, or to conscience. All on her own, Fassie's just fine...
Hlongwa praised the "daring and gallant and fearless struggle" of the ANC and leaders like Nelson Mandela for the reforms now on the horizon...
...South Africa" until well into next year. Last week, citing difficulties in repatriating 20,000 exiled members and setting up local branches, the African National Congress postponed its planned Dec. 16 national conference six months. The gathering will elect a new executive body and is expected to elevate Nelson Mandela to the A.N.C. presidency to replace the ailing Oliver Tambo. But government officials complained that the A.N.C.'s organizational problems could make it difficult for President F.W. de Klerk to convene full-scale discussions on a post-apartheid constitution by March, as planned...
Rauch began his campaign speech for chair last week with the claim: "I assumed the position of U.C. secretary on March 12, 1989. Since then, the two Germanys have united, Nelson Mandela has been freed, Earth Day has made people everywhere more conscious of their environment and the butterfly of democracy has begun to emerge from the cocoon of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. I take no responsibility for the Persian Gulf crisis...
...used to be features editor at Vogue, and it shows. The opening issues are nothing if not clothes conscious. Even an informative report about Moscow gangsters begins with a description of their attire. Truman thinks his focus is broader: "Style is what you wear to work and also Nelson Mandela walking out of jail. It's stylish to be interested in the world." The magazine, published by the Newhouse empire, which also owns GQ, purports to offer some hard-hitting pieces. But Doug Vaughan's story about rooting through the confiscated files of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega breaks little...