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...Nelson Mandela's historic address to a joint meeting of Congress, George Bush's retraction of his no-new-taxes pledge, the savings and loan crisis -- none of these issues could hold Washington's attention for long last week. The topic dominating front pages and TV news broadcasts, gossip on the Metro and at the State Department was a fuzzy 83-minute black-and-white videotape played at the trial of Marion Barry. It showed the three-term mayor of the nation's capital rolling around on a bed in a downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend...
...showdown on the civil rights bill demonstrates, Mandela's presence in the U.S. throws a sharper light on domestic racial matters. At the first stop on his itinerary, the mostly black Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, the crowd needed little encouragement to draw comparisons between the problems of South African blacks and their own dilemmas. As he spoke about the inadequacy of schools for blacks in South Africa, some of his listeners shouted back, "Same here!" When he went on to complain that in South Africa whites control the education of blacks, others in the crowd picked...
Such powerful emotional connections are likely to ensure that the U.S. keeps up the pressure as Mandela wages his battle against apartheid. But at the same time that his legend grows here, the realities of day-to-day political struggle have cut into his popularity at home, even among those whose aspirations he has spent half a lifetime representing. Were he to become the first elected black leader of postapartheid South Africa, the resulting immersion in the messy doings of government could make things still more trying for him. Knowing that he remains a hero in America could help...
When we decided late last week to put Nelson Mandela's visit to the U.S. on our cover, three of the journalists who scrambled to get the story were newly arrived college interns. Michelle Ray, an editor for the University of California at Santa Barbara Daily Nexus, assembled background research for the Nation section. Otto Pohl, a student at Cornell, photographed the parade in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, then joined assistant picture editor Richard Boeth at the light table to edit the pictures. On Thursday night Robin Bennefield, who has been managing editor of the Swarthmore Phoenix, headed...
George Bush's main reason for inviting Nelson Mandela to the White House this week is to dramatize Washington's opposition to apartheid and its support for oppressed blacks in South Africa. But the President may have seen another benefit in being hospitable: he wants to demonstrate his longtime regard for issues of concern to American blacks, many of whom know him, like him and may even be willing to vote Republican in this year's congressional elections, to say nothing...