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...MAULING OF MANDELA. Antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela's ten-day tour through the U.S. is three weeks away, but it has already set off a frenzy of opportunism among organizers, peddlers and politicians. Officials at the African National Congress are so besieged with requests from T-shirt hustlers, record producers and concert promoters that they've started a file labeled SHARKS. In California the Mandela Visit Freedom Committee and the Southern California Chapter for the A.N.C. are jockeying over who has final say about his schedule there. And Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is preening for a summit...
...Eddie win a contest. The kids enjoying a beach vacation on A Different World may be black, but their primary identity seems to be boisterous middle-class college students. Symbolically, of course, it is indeed a different world when sitcom characters routinely wear T shirts that proclaim, MARTIN, MALCOLM, MANDELA...
...historic photo op: Nelson Mandela, head of the African National Congress delegation, sitting down to negotiate with South African President F.W. de Klerk. As three days of talks got under way last week, De Klerk called the government's first formal meeting with the A.N.C. since its founding in 1912 "a milestone...
...mistake was working with South Africa's whites while other black leaders went to prison or into exile, he never committed the bigger sin that the A.N.C. long feared: cutting a separate deal with whites in exchange for becoming the country's first black President. Buthelezi always insisted that Mandela be freed as a precondition to his joining in negotiations on South Africa's future...
...accept that Inkatha has a right to sit at the negotiating table, it remains fashionable to dismiss Buthelezi as a political lightweight. After last week's press conference, attended by a mere dozen journalists, Buthelezi groused that the media refuse to take him seriously. There is little doubt that Mandela's words will continue to be those that are most closely scrutinized inside and outside the country. But the architects of any future political settlement will ignore the Zulu prince only at South Africa's peril...