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...characterized New York politicians since the days of Tammany Hall. He is far more comfortable in quiet back-room negotiations than in public confrontations with unhappy constituents. His finest hour may have been the lavish hero's welcome the city provided in June for South African leader Nelson Mandela, for whom New York's warring ethnic groups seemed to put aside their differences during a three-day celebration of racial harmony...
...Wiesel's moral authority that brought together Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela; Jimmy Carter and Francois Mitterrand; the authors Gunter Grass and Nadine Gordimer; Chai Ling and Li Lu, leaders of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square -- an astonishing collection of Nobel prizewinners, professors, rectors, saints. A man could not make his way through the SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo without ricocheting off one paragon or another. Such saturations of virtue and celebrity gave me a jolt of anxiety: this is a perfect target for a bomb. But the choice of Oslo was canny. Norway has its immunities...
While wondering vaguely why hatred is not one of the Seven Deadly Sins (Is it covered under Wrath?) and why the Old Testament is so full of hate, I ; stared at the back of Nelson Mandela's head as he sat at the conference table -- a nimbus of television light around his charcoal hair, the man enveloped in utter stillness, the most thorough self-possession I have ever beheld. Does 27 years in prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind...
...entourage made its way around the country's largest black township, young men cried, "Viva, comrade!" and children shouted, "Welcome!" Greetings for African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela? No. Last week crowds in Soweto (pop. 2 million) were showing appreciation for a white politician. President F.W. de Klerk took an unannounced tour of Soweto following weeks of violence involving rival black factions and security forces. Blacks cheered De Klerk, explained Agnes Molahlehi, 25, a nursing student, because he freed Mandela and has taken steps to abolish apartheid...
...root of the problem remains Natal province, where bloodletting between A.N.C. supporters and the largely Zulu following of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has claimed nearly 4,000 lives in the past few years. At a joint press conference with De Klerk last week, Mandela charged that police violence against blacks continues -- especially in Natal, where security forces allegedly collaborate with Buthelezi's Inkatha movement -- and complained that key elements of the police force may simply be outside the President's control. Buthelezi again called for a face-to-face meeting with Mandela, a development that many believe would cool...