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...measure Mandela's trip was a success before he ever set out. "This is the consolidation of the political credibility of the A.N.C.," declares the Rev. William Howard, past president of the National Council of Churches and a 20-year veteran of the antiapartheid fight in the U.S. "Four or five years ago, the very top leadership couldn't even get a meeting with the person on the Africa desk at the State Department. Now the President has invited Mandela to the White House, and everybody wants to meet with...
...joyous reception of Mandela was also a rite of self-congratulation for the American civil rights activists who have used the struggle in South Africa as a rallying cry. Such leaders had started to make connections with the battle against apartheid long ago. The American Committee on Africa, the first antiapartheid organization in the U.S., was created in 1953. But it was during the 1980s that civil rights activists discovered in the fight to free Mandela an effort they could throw themselves into with gusto -- and little moral ambiguity...
...Mandela's freedom was for so long the focus of America's antiapartheid movement that some people fear the euphoria over his release will dissipate concern over what remains to be done. Talks between the A.N.C. and Pretoria are not expected to resume until mid-July. In the meantime, whatever hope there may have been in South Africa that Mandela's release would quickly usher in a new multiracial democracy has begun to fade. Now activists say it is important to draw attention to De Klerk's failure to take such steps as lifting the Internal Security Act, which permits...
...strategy for broadening the antiapartheid campaign. On Thanksgiving eve, TransAfrica's Robinson; Walter Fauntroy, congressional delegate for the District of Columbia; and Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, paid a visit to the South African embassy in Washington and refused to leave until Mandela was released and apartheid dismantled. They were arrested...
Still, De Klerk's skillfully orchestrated reforms have stolen some of Mandela's momentum. Just as the black leader headed for North America, the South African President lifted the state of emergency from all provinces except Natal, the site of fierce fighting between A.N.C. militants and supporters of the rival Inkatha movement. Then, on the eve of Mandela's arrival in New York, De Klerk made good on his promise to revoke the Separate Amenities Act that for nearly four decades had legalized segregation. The South African Parliament repealed the law, opening the country's parks, beaches, swimming pools, services...